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is me!”? Kidnapped kiddie and fair inveigled by ‘“maid’’ into
kidnapper. spiriting Sonny Boy away.
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CUTEST KIDDIE PROVES BIG BOSS IN FUNNY FAMILY CLASH!
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SYNOPSIS
Domestic difficulties, alternately
humorous and serious, figure as the
theme of the interesting story un-
folded in the Warner Bros.
talking picture, “Sonny Boy.” It is
the amusing story of two sisters.
One of them knows too much about
men, the other too little.
latest
When Winifred Canfield receives
a telegram in the night from her
sister Mary, she hurries to the city
filled with foreboding. It is no sur-
‘prise to learn that Mary has quar-
reled with her husband, Hamilton,
again but it does give her some-
thing of a shock when Mary. ex-
plains that Hamilton plans to take
their child, Sonny Boy, to Europe
with him.
As Mary shows her the detective,
Muleahy, who is watching the
Cachet. they see Hamilton com-
Win-
nie promises to take Sonny back to
Watsonville
ing with Thorpe, his lawyer.
and while
Mary misleads the men she dons a
maid’s outfit and inveigles Mulcahy
into carrying out a laundry basket
containing Sonny.
with her
Thorpe leaves for the station to
go on his vacation. Winnie learns
that cannot get a train to
Watsonville till the next day and
overhearing Thorpe tell an acquain-
tance that his apartment will be un-
occupied decides to hide there.
she
On the way she learns that she is
being hunted as the kidnapper and
barely escapes capture by Muleahy.
She obtains the key to Thorpe’s
apartment by posing as his wife and
has hardly put Sonny to bed and
telephoned Mary of her plans and
whereabouts when Thorpe’s father
and mother, Colonel and Mrs. Cran-
dall arrive. from the Philippines.
They joyously assume that Win-
nie is Thorpe’s wife. Meanwhile the
distracted Hamilton has pulled
Thorpe off his train to help him
find Sonny. They go to Thorpe’s
club. Thinking that Thorpe and
Winnie have quarreled, the Colonel
| phones Thorpe to come home to his
| wife.
Thorpe arrives at his apartment
much mystified. His parents are so
\enthusiastic that he hasn’t the heart
,to tell them at once that they are
being duped and he finds Winnie
very attractive. Sonny Boy appears
and plays his part in the game by
calling him “Daddy.”
When Thorpe gets Winnie alone
in his own bedroom, he demands an
explanation.
divined lie. Thorpe answers the
door long enough to get rid of the
convivial acquaintances to whom he
has loaned the key to his apartment
and to give Winnie time to phone
Mary. Returning, he overhears
Winnie and listening in on the ex-
tension, learns her identity.
He enters the bedroom and pro-
ceeds to undress, much to Winnie’s
distress and describes to her his
former conquests in this room. Mary
arrives, followed by the jealous
Hamilton. The latter thinks Mary
has a rendezvous with Thorpe and
attacks him.
The advent of Winnie, Sonny and
the Crandalls puts an end to the
fight. The old folks send for 2.
minister. Mary and Hamilton, re-
conciled, return home with Sonny
Boy. They are greeted by Muleahy
with an ugly urchin, whom he in-
sists must be their son, for “Mul-
cahy never misses.”
Later when harmony has been
restored, Sonny Boy attends a thea-
tre showing of “The Singing Fool”
and comes home to sing his song hit
“Sonny Boy.”
Big Star of
Winnie tells an easily |
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DAVEY LEE, STAR
AT FOUR, COMES
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next as the opening date for “‘Sonny
Boy,” Warner Bros. latest Vitaphone
Talking Picture, and the first star-
ring vehicle for four-year-old Davey
who won this early honor
through his marvelous performance
n support of Al Jolson in “The Sing-
ing Fool,”
Davey’s part in “Sonny Boy” has
nothing of the tragie character of
the role he had in the Jolson play.
'He is shown as the child of tempo-
rarily battling parents, and to keep
the child’s father from taking Sonny
Boy with him, his mother plans with
her sister to kidnap him. It is by
his winsome and ingenious doings
that things are finally straightened
out.
Davey Lee is supported by Edward
Everett Horton, Betty Bronson, Ger-
trude Olmstead, John T. Murray,
Edmund Breese, Lucy Beaumont and
Jed Prouty. The story was written
by Leon Zuardo. (©. Graham Baker
did the scenario. Archie L, Mayo
directed.
The inimitable charm of Davey
Lee is not to be explained, it is as
inexplicable ag genius always is,
but there are a thousand little, odd,
whimsical, elfin, unstudied ways he
has, of lisping his words, waving
his tiny hands, rolling his big eyes,
and getting his diminutive body into
unexpected shapes, that set audi-
ences into peals of laughter—the
mellow, heart-warming laughter that
‘comes from the heart.
“Sonny Boy”
TINY DAVEY LEE
COMES AS STAR OF
OF BIG TALKIE
Davey Lee, the world’s best-loved
child, shortly after havipy )
his fourth birthday, was a
stardom and “Sonny Boy,” his; first
starring picture, a Warner Bros.
Vitaphone Talking Picture, comes
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NEXDACOR Asari Of ee days.
“Sonny Boy” has none of the
heart-rending tragedy of “The Sing- |
ing Fool” which caused oceans of
tears to be shed over the ador-
able Davey, and yet its appeal is as
great. “Sonny Boy” is a comedy of
domestic life. Sonny Boy’s parents,
having disagreed, his mother’s sister
kidnaps Davey, to make the father
come to time. The picture is well-
cast and well-directed, but it is the
tantalizing personality of tiny
Davey that dominates.
He is so very tiny, his eyes have
such an elfin twinkle, and his lisp
is so captivating, that audiences are
in a state of continual “ohs” and
“ahs,” and their laughter is strangely
|near the verge of tears.
Davey is supported by a star cast
including Betty Bronson, Edward
Everett Horton, Gertrude Olmstead,
John T. Murray, Tommy Dugan,
Lucy Beaumont, Edmund Breese and
Jed Prouty. The story is by Leon
Zuardo. ©. Graham Baker did the
|scenario and Archie Jy. Mayo
directed.
MILLION DOLLAR KID
COMES AS STAR OF
TALKING “SONNY BOY”
Let all small boys take notice!
One of their own has been raised
to the throne of stardom! The new
king of the movie kids, is none other
than Mr. Davey Lee, aged four, and
He is comitig fo.dne)...,........ss-
Theatre next in Warner
Bros. latest Vitaphone Talking Pie-
ture, in his first starring picture—
“Sonny Boy.”
The grown-ups that help Davey
are Edward Everett Horton, Betty
Bronson, Gertrude Olmstead, John
T. Murray, Edmund Breese, Lucey
Beaumont and Jed Prouty. Leon
Zuardo wrote the story which was
adapted for the screen by 0.
Graham Baker. Archie I. Mayo
| directed.
| “Sonny
Boy” is a comedy, and
Davey is not required to make peo-
ple cry as he did in “The Singing
Fool.” He is just a mite of funny
humanity, not camera-Conscious, not
“smart,” just a regular little kid,
|but with such odd small anties—
such winkings and lisping—and such
unlooked-for changes of expression—
as to make everyone wont to claim
him as their own on the spot! You
really must not miss “Sonny Boy”!
“SONNY BOY” COMES
AS TALKIE STAR
“Sonny Boy” Warner Bros. latest
Vitaphone Talking Picture, starring
four-year-old Davey. Lee, comes to
the jae; Theatre next
Cara 2nn oes daze-—The
grown-ups in support of wee Davey
are Edward Everett Horton, Betty
Bronson, Gertrude Olmstead, John
T. Murray, Edmund Breeese, Lucy
Beaumont and Jed Prouty. Leon
Zuardo did the story which was ad-
apted for the screen by C. Graham
Baker. Archie L. Mayo directed.
Davey Lee, as everybody knows,
earned his advancement to stardom
by the wonderful work he did as
“Sonny Boy’. in support of Al Jolson
in “The Singing Fool.” In “Sonny
Boy,” however, though the diminu-
tive Davey is not required to make
people cry — yet while the
crowds laugh with him—tears are
perilously near! Davey seems, by
some stroke of unconscious genius,
to get himself adopted by every per-
son within sound and sight of him!
“SONNY BOY” LIKES
TO MAKE BELIEVE
SAYS DIRECTOR
Four-year-old Davey Lee, who
is starred in Warner Bros. Vita-
phone talking picture, “Sonny Boy”
lives in the world of make believe.
Director Archie Mayo discovered
this thing during the making of
Davey’s first starring picture when
he asked him ‘“What’s. all that
rumbling about, honey ?”
“Pm ftruck,” replied Davey, as
ht turn: Broun, leaning heavily to
the imside of the curve. David’s
mother then explained that Davey
chooses. something that he would
like to be, every day. ;
Some of his favorites are an alr-
plane, a traffie officer, a bumble bee,
a butterfly, a tall pine tree, a lost
pin, an organ grinder’s monkey, and
a cloud.
WHEN LITTLE DAVEY
MAKES BELIEVE
W hat playing
You are, today,
Tiny Davey Lee?
“I’m being a twuck
A big red twuck
I’m it, and
are you
It is me.
One day I was
An airoplane,
Yes, and bumble bee,
And a traffic cop,
And a butterfly,
And a tall pine tree.
And an organ
Grinder’s monkey,
And a pink cloud,
In the sky—
I been so very
Lots of things—
I wonder why!
Mother says
That even she,
Don’t know what I,
Can really be.
And that’s the reason
Why, I spoze,
She teached me,
“Mighty like—
A aR
woze!
Harry Lee.
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SONNY BOY’S FAN
MAIL, O BOY!
What is considered a fan mail
record for a child, is held by the
Davey Lee, who receives more let-
ters per week than many of the
most popular grown-up actors in
Hollywood.
According to a recent
Davey’s fan mail rose from four
hundreds to thousands within the
short space of two months after
the general release of “The Singing
Fool.” His record now closely ap-
proaches that of such film favorites
as Dolores Costello, Al Jolson or
Monte Blue.
A picture that is bound to still
further increase Davey Lee’s weekly
postal package is his first starring
talking film, “Sonny Boy,” which
is to be seen next at the
Theatre.
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DAVEY LEE PLAYS
“SONNY BOY” WITH
| ELFIN WISDOM
Although Warner Bros. Vitaphone
itulking picture “Sonny Boy” con-
Lee, the four
year old star, a group of eight lead-
tains beside Davey
|
‘ber are new voices to the screen.
Those playing important roles in
first starring vehicle
who have been previously seen and
heard the talkies are Edward
Everett Horton, Betty Bronson, Tom
Dugan, Edmund Breese
3eaumont.
Members of the cast who appear
for the first time on Vitaphone in-
Davey Lee’s
in
and Lucey
clude the lovely Gertrude Olmstead,
John T. Murray and Jed Prouty.
The entire cast, however, is well
equipped for talking pictures as all
have had.experience on the legiti-
mate stage.
“Souny Boy” was adapted for the
sereen by C. Graham Baker from a
Leon Zuardo story and directed by
Archie Mavo. It is a finely con-
structed comedy-drama in which a
proposed divorée is responsible for
bringing about an unexpected mar-
riage. ’
Lee easily dominates the
piece, his merry, yet wistful and
elfin tininess, his lisping speech, his
deft though wholly -unstudied use
of eyes and body, sending audiences
with ripples of laughter which are
always mellowed by a_ tenderness
which the diminutive Davey unfail-
ingly brings forth.
Comes to
next.
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“Men are but children
of a larger growth—”
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ACTOR’S FIRST STARRING ROLE
AT WARNER THEATRE
By ROSE PELSWICK
‘Sonny Boy.”’
Combine all the ‘‘ohs’’ and ‘‘ahs’’ of doting parents at the
ing
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anties of their offspr
The four-year-old
DAVEY LEE GETS
FIRST NAMESAKE
Davey Lee, four-year-old Warner
star, to be seen
at the
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one of the sure indications of fame
—the honor of having a baby named
for him.
David Lee Ray is the pudgy
possessor of the
His
and his
celebrated cogno-
men. residence is with his
parents sister Florence at
The family would no doubt be glad
to receive notification from others
who consider naming their neweom-
ers for Davey Lee.
Florence in a letter to Davey Lee
said that ever
‘in “The Singing Fool” she had loved
the name, and that when the stork
brought baby brother, she at onee
importuned pa and ma to name him
David Lee Ray.
DAVEY LEE, TINIEST OF
TALKIE STARS COMES
IN “SONNY BOY”
know nothing about women, but
the question reverses ‘itself into just
how much women know about
or how much either know about the
In
| Warner Bros. latest Vitaphone talk-
mental workings of little boys.
ing picture, “Sonny Boy,” Davey
Lee, most delightful little boy of
the screen world is starred.
Archie Mayo directed Davey Lee
The support
Everett
in “Sonny Boy.” in-
eludes Edward Horton,
Betty Bronson, Gertrude Olmstead,
John T. Murray, Lucy Beaumont and
Jed Prouty. C. Graham Baker ad-
apted the Leon Zuardo story for
the sereen.
“Sonny Boy” depicts amusingly
the contemplated divorcee of Sonny
Boy’s parents. Containing moments
of sparkling comedy and others of
deeper dramatic tenseness this Vita-
phone talking picture brings to the
sereen an unusual story and through
it all the personality of the tiny,
lisping, little
| Davey, flits like a will o’ the wisp.
A
tantalizingly lovable
new star has arisei.
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and the same appreciative utterances
of audiences gurgling at all the child players of the sereen, and
you have a faint idea of the reception Davey Lee gets, and will
continue to get, in his starring role as “‘Sonny Boy.”
divided honors with Al
Jolson in ‘‘The Singing Fool.’’ in which the child made his
first screen appearance as the inspiration for the song, “‘Sonny
And in the film of that name,
which opened at the Warner
Theatre last evening, he is so
lovable, so delightfully appeal-
ing that everything else fades
into insignificance.
without a
find of
Brothers have
Davey Lee
the greatest
The Warner
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sereen years.
reason
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is natural, with none of the
themselves.
affectations of most theatre prodi-
gies; he is amusing and winning;
he acts, talks and sings with a most
ingratiating charm and a refreshing
of camera-consciousness,
The lines Davey is given to say
are immaterial; when the youngster
puckers up his face and says any-
at. all,
on that?” to his prayers; and then
from “Kin JI depend
when he stands right up and sings
“Sonny Boy” in a manner that one
won’t forget for a long time, the
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Sonny Boy’s Big
Brother A Hit
As Movie Kid
Davey Lee, the delightful little
Sonny Boy of Al Jolson’s “The
Singing Fool,” now a star in his
own right, and coming
next.:to athe. Sse Theatre in
Warner Bros. Vitaphone Talking
picture “Sonny Boy,” recently cele-
brated his fourth birthday at his
home in Hollywood, with his older
brother, Frankie, who will be re-
membered as the crippled child in
“The Miracle Man,” which picture
made the cinema fame of Lon
Chaney.
Mrs. Lee, mother of the two boys,
has been taking Frankie to various
film lots ever since the days of
“The Miracle Man,” and because
she didn’t want to leave Davey
alone on these trips she took him
to the studios with herself and
Frankie. The latter has grown
from a tiny tot to an awkward-age
lad, too old for kiddie parts and too
young for juvenile leads, so when
Warner Brothers summoned Frankie
8 a possibility to play opposite
Jolson in “The Singing Fool,” Mrs.
Lee, Frankie, and little David went
to the studio in a pessimistic frame
of mind rather sure that Frankie
wouldn’t be selected but with no
thought at all of little David.
The minute the studio folk caught
sight of David they began to give
considerable thought to him. And
when Al Jolson cried: “Come to
Uncle Al,” and David ran to the
comedian, Davey was hired on the
spot. Since then the child has been
booked for stardom, while Frankie
has decided to grow up as fast as
possible, so that he may be big
enough to become a leading man.
Davey Lee is supported in
“Sonny Boy” by Edward Everett
Horton, Betty Bronson, Gertrude
Olmstead, John T. Murray, Edmund
Breese, Lucy Beaumont and Jed
Prouty. Leon Zuardo did the story.
C. Graham Baker the scenario and
Archie L. Mayo directed.
Max Reinhardt Calls
Davey Lee of “Sonny
Boy” Rare Genius
Max Reinhardt, celebrated im-
presario of the European stage, and
widely known here for his marvel-
ous presentations of “The Miracle”
—considers Davey Lee a child of
rare genius. Mr. Reinhardt was
deeply moved by the little lad’s
performance in Al Jolson’s “The
Singing Fool.”
Davey Lee comes to the
Theatre next as star of
“Sonny Boy,’ Warner Bros. latest
Vitaphone Talking Picture. His
support includes Edward Everett
Horton, Betty Bronson, Gertrude
Olmstead, John T. Murray, Edmund
Breese, Lucy Beaumont and Jed
Prouty. Leon Zuardo wrote the
story. The scenario is by C.
Graham Baker. Archie L. Mayo
directed.
The story has to do with a family
tiff, during which Sonny Boy’s
mother’s sister kidnaps him to
prevent the father taking him
away. The piece is light comedy,
and Davey dominates it—not by
any of the antics of “smart”
children, but by the cunningest of
shy, lisping, twinkling, elfin wis-
dom.
Audiences respond uproaniously,
but their laughter is never far
from tears, though in “Sonny Boy”
the child is not called upon for any
of the tragic feeling of “The
Singing Fool.”
ADVANCE STORIES
PICTURES HAVE NEW BOY
STAR IN DAVEY LEE
Juvenile Discovered by Al Jolson Has Bright Future
Ahead on the Talking Screen
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Master Davey Lee’s “Sonny Boy”
Breaks Tidal Wave of Bravissimos
By KATHARINE ZIMMERMANN
New York Telegram
When I think of all the bravissimos that are due to be tossed
at the feet of Master Davey Lee today, following the premiere
of “‘Sonny Boy’’ at the Warner Theatre, the necessity for
sitting down and coining a brand new adjective looms large.
Something, for instance, that takes off with a flourish of trum-
pets and explodes in a ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay shower somewhere
around the tail end of the last syllable.
For here is the most ingenious
paradox that Hollywood has handed
out in the memory of your corre-
spondent,. a screen child with a
sense of humor, an infant prodigy
that can keep a packed house hug-
ging itself in glee without seeking
refuge once in those juvenile eccen-
tricities known as “cute.”
I must confess that as a rule I
find nothing more fatiguing than a
sustained seance with the genus
sereen child. But the departmental
bonnet is doffed deferentially to
this 4-year-old gamin, who thumbs
his nose engagingly at script direc-
tions (which provide, incidentally,
that he be got up regardless in the
sailor-suit tradition of the royal
house of Guelph) and proceeds to
entertain cash customers after his
own fashion.
Davey Lee has a genuine flare for
comedy. He takes the stock situ-
ations and well-worn gags of
“Sonny Boy” and contrives to bam-
boozle you into getting a new slant
on them—the kiddie’s viewpoint, so
to speak. He puts his whole heart
into an uproarious imitation of Al
Jolson singing his favorite anthem,
“Sonny Boy.” He kids the entire
“bright - sayings - by - our - little-
ones” situation by letting you have
them with his tongue out and his
nose awry. He kids the grown-ups
that imperil our toddlers’ nerves
with fatuous baby talk. In a word,
he seems to be the answer to the
juvenile film population’s prayer—
another David, complete with sling
and ready to avenge the disrespect
that has been practiced for twenty
years by celluloidia against the
natural. state of childhood.
The director, Archie Mayo, has
made an excellent job of “Sonny
Boy.” Realizing that the plot was
far too old to be taken seriously,
he conducts the whole picture in a
mood of cheerful inanity, and the
result is a thoroughly enjoyable
evening. The plot, by the way, has
something to do with an obliging
spinster who passes off her sister’s
child as her own and finds herself
saddled unexpectedly with a hus-
band and a couple of provoking old
in-laws.
The dialogue writer deserves a
couple of palms for some really
adult comedy lines, and in the cast
Edward Everett Horton and Betty
Bronson are on the erest of the
wave most of the time.
Davey Lee in “Sonny Boy,” War-
ner Bros. latest Vitaphone Talking
picture, comes to the
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Take Your Own Sonny Boy
To See “Sonny Boy”’
“Sonny Boy” Lee, aged four, is
probably the funniest, most lovable
little boy in the world, with the
exception, of course, of your own
little Sonny Boy—arid the tiny star
comes to the Theatre in
his first stellar effort, “Sonny Boy,”
Warner’ Bros. latest Vitaphone
Talking tpieture,.: oro, next, for
ATU Otte, Saraet. days
The story of the play is by Leon
Zuardo, the scenario by C. Graham
Baker and the direction by Archie
L. Mayo. The east includes Ed-
ward Everett Horton, Betty Bron-
son, Gertrude Olmstead, John T.
Murray, Edmund Breese, Luey
Beaumont and Jed Prouty.
Take all the family to see Davey
Lee and to hear his funny little
words—his lisp,—his singing of
new and delightful experience.
“Sonny Boy!” You will find
it a
With Jackie Coogan advanced in
London to the dignity of long
trousers, Wesley Barry on _ the
vaudeville stage and Andrew
Lawlor Jr. with “Penrod” far
behind, “movie” fans lost no time
looking about to discover successors
to their particular favorites.
Or perhaps it should be said Al
Jolson and Warners found him for
them. You’ve doubtless guessed it.
He is none other than the shy
youngster who proved so appealing
as the pathetic lad with Jolson in
“The Singing Fool.” He is David,
or Davey, Lee, around whom the
song hit of the Jolson Vitaphone
success, “Sonny Boy,’ revolves.
Unaffected and perfectly natural,
young Lee has none of the preco-
cious sureness or almost imperti-
nent confidence oftimes marring the
playing of the majority of film
youngsters. On the contrary, he is
almost abnormally shy, and _ since
his playing in “The Singing Fool”
marks his first appearance on the
screen it required weeks of the
most careful preparation and gentle
rehearsing on the part of Mr. Jolson
himself and Archie L. Mayo, who
directed the Vitaphone presentation
for the Warners, to bring the boy
to the point where he would bravely
render his lines in the most poig-
nant and telling fashion without
self-consciousness or any trace of
artificiality.
CHILDHOOD
Qur birth is but a sleep
and a forgetting:
The soul that rises
with us, our life’s star
Hath had elsewhere
Its setting,
And cometh from afar.
Not in entire
forgetfulness,
and not in
utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds
of glory, do we come
From God,
who is our home:
Heaven lies about us
in our infancy.
—W oRDSWORTH
His success following the first
showing in Hollywood of “The
Singing Fool” and attendant upon
the premiere here at the Winter
Garden rather frightens, jim epd
congratulations brought embarass-
ment and confusion absolutely
painful to witness. On more than
one occasion, although a manly
little chap, he took refuge in tears.
Since “The Singing Fool” and _ his
subsequent work in the studios he
has gained in self-control and as-
surance and has learned how to
ward off “lionizing.”
In no ordinary or commonplace
fashion did Mr. Jolson discover
Davey Lee for his present idolizers.
When at the Warners’ studios in
Hollywood the time arrived to pick
the exactly right small boy for “The
Singing Fool” dozens and dozens of
mothers were on hand, each with
an embryo Coogan, some with two
and a few with three or more, for
the appraising eyes of Mr. Jack
Warner, Mr. Jolson and Mr. Mayo.
Mrs. Lee had arrived with a boy in
whom she thought she detected
Signs of screen talent. But that
boy was Davey’s older ‘brother.
Davey had been brought along for
the simple reason that there was
nothing else to do with him. Mrs.
Lee’s efforts were expended in keep-
ing his restless legs in one place.
But when she looked the other way
for a moment D?vey made the most
of that moment:
It was in June and the lawns and
gardens surrounding the gstudios
were inviting. Davey trotted about
the driveways until a particularly
splendid flower-bed drew his atten-
tion.
“Hey, there, young man!” called
a friendly voice. “Where do you
think you’re going? Don’t fall in
that fountain.”
Davey did not appear scared in
the least, Al Jolson wags smiling in
a friendly fashion: “Are you an
actor?” Davey asked, and_ the
comedian confessed.
A little later Jolson came into
the studio with Davey on _ his
shoulders.”
“Hold
“ve got
shoulders.”
So Davey Lee was trotted into
his first role and on the books of
the Warner casting offices he went
down as the first player of such
tender years to obtain an important
engagement entirely through his
own efforts.
Davey Lee
heard at the
his first starring release, ‘Sonny
Boy,” a Warner Bros. Vitaphone
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Such a Little Boy to Win
the Big World’s Heart!
“PETER PAN” PLAYS
BIG PART IN DAVEY
LEE’S “SONNY BOY”
Betty Tonsoni, who plays the part
of Aunt Winnie in Davey Lee’s first
starring vehicle, “Sonny Boy”—the
Warner Brothers Vitaphone Talking
Pieture—now at the Rr oes ae
Theatre, was born in Trenton, Niche
She was edu-
sated Kast
Orange, N.. J.,
High School, and
in
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schools and en-
tered pictures in
1922, doing a bit
in “Anna As-
conds.”
J. M. Barrie
Betty Brous ;
! ra those Miss Bron-
son to interpret
star parts i
screen
of his plays and
millions remem-
ber her delightful performances in
“Peter Pan” and “A Kiss for Cin-
derella.”
Other pictures in which she has
appeared are “Are Parents People?”
“The Golden Princess,” “The Cat’s
Pajamas,” “Everybody’s Acting,”
“Paradise for Two,” “Ritzy,” “Not
So Long Ago,” “The Open Range,”
“Brass Knuckles,” and “The Singing
Fool.”
Miss Bronson lives in Beverly
Ilills, California, and her pastimes
are dancing, reading, riding and
bridge. Her proudest possession is a
wire-haired fox terrier.
Iler performance in “Sonny Boy”
is one of the most charming of her
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GERTRUDE OLMSTED
SUPPORTS DAVEY LEE
Gertrude Olmsted, who supports
Davey Lee in “Sonny Boy,” Warner
Brothers latest Vitaphone talking
picture, was born in Chicago, Til.
After finishing her schooling she
studied _ the
mother, who was
a dramatic in-
structor at the
Chieago Conser-
vatory of Music.
Miss Olmsted’s
first appearance
on the stage was
in “Juliet” upon
ao ~ her graduation
Gertrude O/m stead from grammar
school. Her last
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was in “The Red
Lamp,’ ’in whieh
she enacted the feminine lead.
Leaving the stage for Western
lends on the sereen, she later played
impextant parts in “Sporting Goods,”
“The Cheerful Fraud,” “California
Straight WAhead,” “Cobra,” “Monte
Carlo2-“Cameo Kirby,”? and many
other pictures.
Combining her stage
experience, Gertrude
and heard on Vitaphone in
“Sonny Boy” as a wife whose hus-
band is seeking a divorce. His
plans are happily set awry ef-
forts of their little son.
iA novel comedy vehicle on Vita-
phone, “Sonny. Boy” presents Davey
Lee in his first starring vehicle. The
east includes Edward Everett Hor-
ton, Betty Bronson, John T. Murray,
Tom Dugan, Edmund Breese, Lucy
Beaumont and Jed Prouty. Archie
Mayo directed from the Vitaphone
adaptation by Graham Baker froma
Leon Zuardo story.
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SONNY BOY SINGS
UNCLE AL’S SONG
Climb upon my knee
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Sonny Boy,
You are only three,
Sonny Boy—
You’ve no way
Of knowing,
There’s no way
Of showing,
What you mean
To me—
Sonny Boy!
When there are
Grey sktes,
I don’t mind
The grey skies,
You make them blue,
Sonny Boy—
Friends may forsake me,
Let them all
Forsake me—
You'll pull me through
Sonny Boy,
You're sent
From heaven,
And I know
Your worth—
Your’e made
A heaven,
For me right here
On earth—
And when I am
Old and gray, dear,
Promise you
Won't stray dear—
I'll follow you,
Sonny Boy!
You're my dearest
Prize, Sonny Boy—
Sent from out
The skies,
Sonny Boy—
One thing makes
You dearer—
You're your
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DAVEY LEE WINS
B’WAY STARDOM
AT AGE OF FOUR
Four-year-old Davey Lee was the
first player to be chosen for Al Jol-
son’s second super-special, “The
Singing Fool,” and it was his aston-
ishingly natural work as the tiny
figure, “Sonny Boy,” that
Warners to elevate him to
stardom—and to present him in the
delightful Vitaphone comedy, “Son-
ny Boy,” now showing at the
J eee Theatre.
Al Jolson’s selection of Master Da-
vey as the “Sonny Boy” of the Sing-
ing Fool” meant a triumph for the
lad over one hundred and eighty
sereen children who were being con-
sidered by the Warner Bros.’ casting
office.
And it was a personal triumph
for Davey, for he won out all by
himself.
While Joe Marks, casting director,
was interviewing the tot’s mother,
Davey wandered out on the lot, and
was later discovered by his frantic
mother riding piek-a-back on the
shoulders of the star, Al Jolson. The
two had already decided between
themselves that Davey was to have
the part.
After seeing a sereen test of Da-
vey Lee, Jack Warner, production
manager, expressed the belief that
the child was ideal, having much of
the charm that Jackie Coogan
ishowed in earlier sereen roles, to-
gether with utter lack of self-con-
isciousness. The child has an elfin
twinkle, a shy humor and a lisping
way of saying his lines that is quite
lirresistible,
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llight performer as well as_ silent
screen player, is seen and heard for
the first time on
Vitaphone in
“Sonny Boy,” in
support of Dav-
ey Lee. He plays
the part of a dis-
gruntled hus-
band—father of
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end of the story
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|tions: Tommy Dugan, Edmund
iBreese, and Luey Beaumont have all
lplayed in recent Vitaphone produe-
tions. Dugan essayed a_ leading
lcharacterization in “Lights of New
York,” the first all-talking picture
to reach the sereen, and has since
played in “The Million Dollar Col-
lar? and others. Lucey Beaumont
played the mother in “The Grey-
hound Limited,” and had a promi-
nent role in “Hard-boiled Rose.”
i/Edmund Breese was seen and heard
‘in “Conquest” and “On Trial” on
iVitaphone. Jed Prouty, who com-
ipletes the list of well-known play-
lers in “Sonny Boy,” attained promi-
|nenee on the stage, and was a
jleading artist for the Shuberts for
jmany years, and has also played in
inumerous motion pictures. Archie
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ABLY SUPPORTS DAVEY LEE
Edward Everett Horton, one of
the featured members of the cast
which is to be seen and heard in the
Warner Bros. Vitaphone picture,
“Sonny Boy,” starring Davey Lee, is
the busiest actor in Hollywood. Al-
though a veteran
of the cinema,
Horton has al-
ways been a de-
votee of the
legitimate thea-
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luties of producer, manager and star
of the legitimate production.
Vine Street Theatre, Horton has pro-
lueed a number of New York suc-
-egsses and he has endeavored to give
Tos Angeles the best of the modern
onlays. During his career in Los An-
zyeles he has appeared in three hun-
lred and fifty productions of the
legitimate theatre. Considering his
aetive participation in screen
lramas, Horton’s
are hereulean.
He attributes his suecess to his
nethod of learning his lines. It ean
Yardly be ealled memorizing, for
‘orton does not give the seript such
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Hfis method, he says, is
picture of each page of his role and
reads it off with his mind’s eye.
When he is through with the play,
he promptly forgets his role. This
system, Horton believes, is simpler
although it is not as enduring. Once
forgotten, the role would have to be
photographed anew.
In “Sonny Boy,’ Horton is seen
and heard as a prominent divorce
lawyer of romantie reputation. He
is arranging a divorcee for his friend
from a girl he once loved himself
when the girl’s little sister kidnaps
the child and selects Horton’s apart-
ment as the best place to hide.
Most of Mr. Horton’s time is spent
in the studios, character comedy
roles being his specialty. His career
in pictures goes back to the time
when the old Vitagraph company
first began production activities in
ithe west.. He came to California
and secured his first featured roles
iwith them. Two seasons ago Uni
iversal signed him to co-star with
Laura La Plante, one of their mem-
orable pictures being “Taxi, Taxi.”
He then joined Paramount and did
a.very successful series of two-reel
ipictures. He was so suecessful in 5
Warner Bros. sketch that J. L. War
iner chose him for a prineipal part in
i“The Terror.”
“Children and fooles
cannot lye.”
JOHN HEYWOOD.
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BREVITIES
Helpful Betty
Betty Bronson portrays a helping
sister in Warner Bros. production
“Sonny Boy,” starring Little Davey
Lee, in which she succeeds in thwart-
ing a contemplated divorce and
finally falls in love with the divorce
lawyer. “Sonny Boy” a Vitaphone
talking picture, is at the
Theatre this week.
Tommy Dugan in Cast
Tom Dugan is seen in another of
his inimitable comedy characteriza-
tions in support of Davey Lee in
“Sonny Boy,” the Warner Bros. pro-
duction, at the Theatre
this week. The excellent supporting
east includes Edward Everett Hor-
ton, Betty Bronson, Gertrude Olm-
sted, John T. Murray and others.
Sonny Boy’s Grand-dad
Edmund Breese, who made _ his
stage debut as the son in “My Awful
Dad” many years ago, is seen in
the role of a grandfather in “Sonny
Boy,” Warner Bros. first starring
vehicle for little Davey Leé, who
shared honors with Al Jolson in “The
Singing Fool.” “Sonny Boy” is the
Vitaphone picture at the
Theatre this week.
STRONG SUPPORT FOR
NEW CHILD STAR
IN “SONNY BOY”
Edward Everett Horton, Betty
Bronson, Gertrude Olmsted, John T.
Murray, Edmund Breese, Lucy Beau-
mont and Tommy Dugan compose the
excellent supporting cast of Warner
Bros. first stellar production for its
new child star, Davey Lee in
“Sonny Boy,” now at the
Theatre on
“Sonny Boy” is a rollicking com:
edy-drama. A married couple’s
quarrel starts it. The husband gets
a court order giving him possession
of the child, and retains a noted
divorce lawyer who had once been
a suitor of his wife. She sends to
the country for her sister to abduct
the child to keep the husband from
taking it to Europe.
Stranded in town with the boy,
the sister finds that the lawyer is
going to be out of town for a couple
of weeks and thinking that his
apartment would be the last place
in the world that would be searched
gains entry by posing as his wife.
The lawyer’s parents arrive from
a long trip-to the Philippines the
same night. The lawyer arrives
later, having postponed his trip and
after finding out the situation pro-
ceeds to take full advantage of it.
Archie L. Mayo directed “Sonny
Boy,” A Vitaphone Talking Picture.
DAVEY LEE
“Blessings on thee,
Little man,
Barefoot boy
With cheek of tan—
From my heart
I wish thee joy
I was once
A barefoot boy.”
—WHITTIER
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While little Davey Lee, star of
“Sonny Boy” now at the
Theatre, Edward Everett Horton,
Betty Bronson, Gertrude Olmsted
and John T. Murray were appearing
in some location scenes for the
production at the Southern Pacific
station in Los Angeles, a red-headed
TOM DUGAN LONG
IN VAUDEVILLE
Tom Dugan, who has made a big
hit in motion pictures since the
invention and perfection of Vita-
phone, started his stage career as
a member of the New. York News-
boys’ Quartette, which he organized
and used it vaudeville for seven
years. Tom Dugan is cast as the
detective in support of Warner
Bros. child star, Davey Lee, in
“Sonny Boy,’ Vitaphone attrac-
(tion at. the. -. ot. Theatre.
The actor was born in Dublin,
Treland, but came to this country
at an early age, settling in Phila-
where he _ received his
He gained some acting
delphia
education.
experience of a sort with a medicing
show before he came to New York
and attracted attention by his sing-
ing. He made the acquaintance of
a number of newsboys and they
used to sing together. This gave
him the idea of organizing the New
York Newsboys’ Quartette for the
vaudeville stage.
After in vaudeville
seven years
youth with a grip rushed up to
Archie L. Mayo, the director, and
grabbed his hand.
“Hello, Mr. Mayo. How are you?
Do you remember me?”
“You've played in one of my pic-
tures,” hazarded Archie.
“Right,” said the brick-top. “You
gave me a ‘bit’ in: “The. College;
Widow” with Dolores Costello. I
certainly want to thank you for
that break. I got a year’s contract
on the strength of it. So long—
eatching a train.”
“What’s the lucky company?”
queried Archie.
“Consolidated Stucco” the red-
headed youth called back as the
train pulled out of the station. “The
president saw the picture and
thought I looked like a good sand
and gravel salesman.”
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with the one act, Dugan went into
comedy in “Silks and
Satins”. He has been cast in Earl
Jarroll’s “Vanities” and a number
of Shubert musical shows. He is
the author of many vaudeville
sketches. (His first. appearance in
Hollywood was at the Music Box
Revue with Carter de Haven.
musical
His picture debut took place in
1926 in Warner Bros. production,
“What Every Girl Should Know.”
A few of the pictures in which he
has since appeared are “Dressed to
Kill,” “Sharpshooters,” “The Small
Bachelor,” “Lights of New York”
and “The Barker.”
He gives trout fishing as his
'!hobby, but is also a great reader.
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FILM LUMINARIES
SUPPORT NEW BABY
STAR OF THE SCREEN
A east of unusual excellence
gathered from both stage and screen
is seen and heard in “Sonny Boy,”
Warner Bros. first production star-
ring little Davey Lee, which is the
Vitaphone attraction at the
Theatre.
Headed by Edward Everett Hor-
ton, Betty Bronson, Gertrude Olm-
sted, and John T. Murray, the play-
ers in this Davey Lee picture ad-
apted by Graham Baker, also include
|LUCY BEAUMONT
IN “SONNY BOY”
Lucy Beaumont, the English ac-
tress appearing this week at the
Sears Theatre in support of
Warner Bros. new child star, Davey
Lee, in’ “Sonny Boy,” igs. ‘one
of the noted screen mothers of the
day, having appeared in more
mother roles than perhaps any other
actress in films.
She was born in Clifton, Bristol,
Eng., a direct descendant of the
Dukes of Beaufort. She is a cousin
of Sir George Beaufort and of Sir
Rigley Armitage. After completing
her education at the Girls College
in Bath, and Clifton High School,
Miss Beaumont went upon the
stage, her first role being Dick in
“Two Little Vagabonds,” afterwards
touring the provinces and appearing
in the Gaiety Theatre, London.
many years she .made a spe-
cialty of boy impersonations. In
following her histrionie career she
has traveled much. For two years
she appeared in India and the Far
East as a member of the company
of Maurice Bandman. With Mathe-
son Lang she toured South Africa
and other British colonies.
On the New York stage she has
been seen in “The Monkey’s Paw,”
“The Return,” “John Ferguson” and
other plays. She began acting in
films in 1923. One of her first
sereen plays was “What Every
Girl Knows” for Fox; another was
“Ashes of Vengeance” for First Na-
tional, but she has since acted in
pictures made by practically every
motion picture company.
JED PROUTY ONCE
A BOOKING AGENT
Jed Prouty, who appears at the
5 rapes Theatre this week in sup-
port of Warner Bros, new child star,
Davey Lee, in “Sonny Boy,” was at
one time a vaudeville booking agent
in New York. He had offices adja-
cent to those of Jesse L. Lasky and
of Arthur Hopkins, the theatrical
producer, who at that time were
both vaudeville booking agents.
Mr. Prouty was born in Boston
and educated in Cambridge. He
spent a number of seasons in vaude-
ville and then went on the legitimate
stage, appearing for fifteen years in
the productions of Klaw & Erlanger
among them “The Pink Lady,”
“The Only Girl,” “Girlies” and “See-
ing Things.”
Not satisfied with his successes
on the stage, Mr. Prouty became ai
theatre manager, directing a house
for E. F. Albee, the vaudeville mag-
nate. It was nearly a dozen years
ago that he turned to screen acting,
appearing in productions of the old
Biograph Company. He prefers
comedy roles and has had his big-
gest successes in them. Some of ‘the
pictures in which he has appeared
are “Sadie Love,” “Room and
Board,” “Kick In,” “Girl of the
Golden West,” “The Great Adven-
ture” and “The Conquest of
Canaan.”
“Sonny Boy,’ a Vitaphone Talk-
ing Picture, now at the
Theatre.
Tom Dugan, Edmund Breese, Lucy
Beaumont, and Jed Prouty.
Horton, a wide favorite on both
the stage or the films, recer’*- made
his Vitaphone talking picture-debut
in the short comedy playlet “Miss
Information,” while he also enacted
a leading role in “The Terror,”
Warners’ second all-talking produe-
tion.
The youngest screen star, Davey
Lee, who walked into the arms of
Al Jolson at Warner Bros. Studio
and was cast for the role of “Sonny
Boy” in “The Singing Fool,” now
appears in his third picture. His
second was “Frozen River.” The
action of “Sonny Boy” revolves
around him.
Betty Bronson essays one of the
leading feminine roles, while Ger-
trude Olmsted. plays the other fem-
inine lead. Miss Olmsted appeared
on the stage in such plays as “The
Red Lamp,” “Father and the Boy”
and others, while her recent screen
stories include “Monte Carlo,”
“Sporting Goods” and others.
So
EDMUND BREESE
IN “SONNY BOY”
Edmund Breese, who is appearing
in support of Warner Bros. child
Star, Davey Lee, in “Sonny Boy”
at the Theatre, was long
a noted actor on the speaking stage
before turning to the sereen. He
was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., and
received his education in the New
York public and in private schools.
His stage debut was made forty
years ago in Hureka Springs, Ark.,
as the son in “My Awful Dad.” For
many years he played in New York
productions, on the road and in
various stock companies. For four
years he appeared under James
O’Neil’s direction. Among the plays
in which he has acted are “Strong-
heart,’ “The Lion and the Mouse,”
“So This is London,” “Bluebeard’s
Eighth Wife,” “A Man’s Home,”
“The Love Leash,’ ag Shylock in
“The Merchant of Venice,” and
many others.
His picture career has not been a
long one as he was not enticed away
from the speaking stage until recent
years. Among the motion pictures
in which he has been cast are
“Womanland,” “Paradise For Two,”
“Back to Liberty” and for Warner
Bros. in Vitaphone and silent ver-
sions, “Conquest,” “On Trial” and
“The Hottentot.”
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“SONNY BOY’; ~
Oh would I were :
A boy again,
When life seemed
Formed of sunny years,
And all the heart
Then know of pain
Was wept away
In transient tears!
—Mark Lemon
Davey Lee, starring in War-
ner Bros. latest Vitaphone
Talking Picture, “Sonny Boy,”
at the Theatre now.
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NEW YORK REVIEWERS ALL
SING DAVEY’S PRAISES
Davey Lee made his starring debut last night as “Sonny Boy.” The
darling little lad who so sensationally supported Al Jolson in “The Singing
Fool,” gives us his own interpretation of the “Sonny Boy” theme song
(and mighty cutely, too).
. Davey Lee is as sweet a youngster as has set movie fans ga-ga
since Jackie Coogan reached his cinema heights some nine years ago.
And now—the talkies, which gives the infant prodigy a chance to put the
movie titles to baby-lisping celluloid. Also a chance to warble in childish
tones, off-key but charmingly, in a way which makes you want to put your
arms around him and hug him, and call him pet names—the “Sonny Boy”
tune.
—lIrene Thirer, New. York Daily News.
Davey Lee is the cutest baby the screen ever has exploited. If you
had any idea this “Sonny Boy” at Warners would be just another one of
those mother-love things you were fooled. For it turns out to be a farce
instead of a tear-milker. And it’s amusing light entertainment.
Davey plays an innocent part in the divorce complications of his
young parents and he provokes a nice romance for his Aunt Winnie. He
also sings “Sonny Boy,” Al Jolson’s theme song from “The Singing Fool.”
And how he sings it!
—Bland Johaneson, New York Mirror.
ee is indeed a very clever child, and although such youngsters,
through what they do and, in this case, say on the screen, impress one
as being more than slightly precocious, Davey Lee possesses a great deal
of natural charm.
There was many a rousing outburst or laughter at a word or two from
the diminutive Davey. His childish speech was not always distinct, but
what he said might not have been understood in real life: However,
whether or not one understood his lines, they nevertheless carried a strong
appeal to one’s heart. It might almost be said that he is good-natured, for
he appeared to enjoy all his work in the picture, and those who see him
saying his prayers will not easily forget his line as he asks God to bless
his mother and father, and then adds that: he is too tired to think of all
the others. So off he goes to slumberland.
—Mordaunt Hall, New York Times..
MANTLE OF STARDOM FALLS LIGHTLY
ON WEE SHOULDERS OF DAVEY LEE
Davey Lee, the adorable ‘‘Sonny Boy’’ of ‘‘The Singing
Fool,’’ Al Jolson’s second Vitaphone picture, is the heir apparent
to the cinematic throne once held by Jackie Coogan, when he was
the whimsical ‘‘Kid’’ of Charley Chaplin’s earlier masterpieces.
Wistful and imaginative, this new Prince Charming wears the
ermine cloak that fell from the youthful shoulders of a Coogan,
in a manner that distinguishes him as an artist of royal theatri-
cal blood.
Until last summer Davey Lee was
merely a three-year-old kid, romping
the Los Angeles streets and playing
with his toy soldiers. At the end
of the summer he was a young
prince in the land of cinema, the
“Sonny Boy’ of Al Jolson.
In the fall of this year he was
acclaimed by a first night audience
in New York as a charming, accom-
plished actor. He reached greatness
in his first effort, as did his prede-
cessor, Jackie Coogan.
Davey’s career is not unlike that
of Jackie’s. Both made their debut
in motion pictures with great stars.
Both had erucial roles, the least
mishap on the part of either being
possible to ruin the picture. In the
elimactic scenes of “The Singing
Fool” and “The Kid,” Davey and
Jackie were the really important ac-
tors. Jolson and Chaplin depended
upon them for the decisive effect of
the entire play. But Davey’s debut
may be said to have been more diffi-
cult, for “The Singing Fool” was a
Vitaphone talking picture and Da-
vey had many priceless lines to
speak. None realized the impor-
tanee of the child better than Jol-
son, himself, and after the opening
at the Winter Garden in New York,
he said:
“You know, I was terribly nervous
over the kid. He could ruin every-
thing, turn pathos into bathos. One
slip would have killed our chances.
I decided to teach him his lines my-
self, and I must say, he proved an
Davey Lee
DAVEY LEE
Sonny Boy—
When I see you
With your shaggy
Pal at play,
I long to be
A boy again,
If only for a day!
Take me by the
Hand, O Davey Lee,
Lead me to the Land
Of used-to-be —
apt pupil. Not once did he stare at Skies are always
the camera. He was naturalness it- Blue there,
self.”
Friends are always
True there,
Davey Lee is the cynosure of Jol-
son’s eyes. Jolson is his discoverer
and his tutor. During the months Let me be
of the production of “The Singing :
Fool” he coached young Davey in With you there,
every scene and watched him with Davey Lee/—
paternal interest. “Sonny Boy” is ;
the first Warner Bros. Vitaphone . .
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You and I and Rover
And when day
After “The Singing Fool,” Davey |
appeared in Warner Bros. Vitaphone
produetion, “Frozen River,” with
Rin-Tin-Tin, and this is his own Is over,
“Sonny Boy.” Previewed by critics, Davey tT pens
both these pictures were claimed to
e Homeward,
enhance the splendid work which
the boy did in his debut with Jolson.
Davey Lee has ascended the throne
Through the night,
To the twinkling
vacated by Jackie Coogan. Each z
little boy, however, was absolutely Light—
individual, There is no point in Home again
Davey’s acting when it can be said
To mother—
that he reminds one of somebody
else, Davey Lee.
Davey Lee, in “Sonny Boy,” War-
ner Bros. Vitaphone talking picture
now playing at the
Theatre.
Sonny Boy
Let me follow
Over hills
And far away—
And let me play
At make believe,
If for only a day.
Harry LEE.
IF YOU WERE EVER
A KID, SEE DAVEY!
Davey Lee, four-year-old star, is
now playing at the
Theatre in
“Sonny Boy,’ Warner
Bros. latest Vitaphone talking pic-
ture. Edward Everett Horton, Bet-
ty Bronson, Gertrude Olmstead and
others support the wonder child. The
story is by Leon Zuardo. C. Graham
Baker did the scenario. Archie L.
Mayo directed. :
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“Washington News’’
MAYBELLE JENNINGS
The amusement world is interest-
ed now in the future of Davey Lee,
the Sonny Boy of “The Singing
Fool,” and his first starring vehicle,
“Sonny Boy.”
It, watched. Jackie Coogan grow
from an adorable infant to a long-
legged little fellow—saw him shed
his first mouthful of teeth and ac-
quire his second—and today’ hears
of him playing in London musie
halls with the elder Coogan.
Years ago we worried about what
would become of him when he grew
out of his small-child parts—now it
is young Davey whose future con-
cerns us.
If Davey were an ordinary film
ibaby, it would not be hard. We
might prophesy that in three or four
years he would become the typieal
fresh prodigy—ill-mannered and
disrespectful.
Davey cannot be drawn and quar-
jtered in any such fashion. In the
ifirst place, he is a genuine mimetie
| artist, and in the second place he is
‘being most carefully nurtured by his
family. He has done three or four
excellent jobs of movie posturing al-
ready, and so far has failed to -ex-
hibit an iota of smartiness, that
quality which so quickly carpets the
cutting-room floor with childish
faces. The baby must be shielded
as long as possible from the pomps
and vanities of the foolish world
into which Al Jolson so recently
thrust him with a platinum spoon in
his mouth. He must be taught to
care for his body, to keep his mind
alive but more than all else, if he is
to continue to perfect the natural
art which seemingly is his, he must
be taught to see to it that his soul
remains receptive.
As yet his artistic chastity %s
maintained—he does not know what
all the shooting is for. If his family
be wise—and I suspect from what
I have seen of Davey that they are
-—the youngster will continue long
in his innocent way.
It is our business to sit on the
sidelines and root. With continued
breaks and care this big-eyed one
will see the top some day.
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RAVE ABOUT DAVEY
“Sonny Boy” has taken possession
of Broadway. This, as you probably
have read in the dailies, is little Da-
vey Lee’s first starring vehicle, and
Davey, in turn, is the four-year-old
who scored a sensational hit in “The
Singing Fool,” with Al Jolson.
When we say that the baby is as
sweet and cute as your own kid, we
feel that we have passed him the
picture palm, for, as you know,
there’s really only one wonderful
_child=in the world and. everybody
a
has it. Peat
Davey’s a love, and when he lisps
his lines the “Ohs” and. “Ahs” of
the audience are like unto the dron-
ing of bees on a June morning.
When the child sings, the specta-
tors’ laughter is loud and thoroughly
good-natured. To be sure, Mr. Lee,
the very tiniest luminary on Holly-
wood Boulevard, is okay!
—New York American...
The Main Stem discovered last
night it has another mammy singer,
perhaps the funniest who ever wor-
ried musically, about a relative fora
fee. Davey Lee, four, hitting “Sonny
Boy”-on all six in his first starring
film at the Warner Theatre, is plea-
sure not. to be missed. The infant
is a knockout. Like Jolson himself,
he let the music slip ahead of him
and caught up with it, he turned on
a tremolo to wring your correspond-
ent’s heart. He injected such su-
perb despair into his vocal compas-
sion for little ones,a beautiful young
lady in F 3 had hysterics. The rest
of the customers were laughing with
delight. Davey Lee justified Al Jol-
son’s faith in him in other ways-pop-
ping out his lines with inflections
you never have heard before. His
IF YOU ARE ONE OF THE THOUSANDS
WHO HAVE CRIED OVER “SONNY BOY”
You Will Read Mayme Ober Peak’s Story Reprinted from the “Boston Sunday Globe”
HOLLYWOOD, Dee. 29.—A sturdy
little figure stood shyly poised in an
office door of the great white-front,
radio-towered Warner Brothers stu-
dio in Sunset Boulevard. His chub-
by arms held a bouquet of red ber-
ries almost as big as he was. Over
the top of his Christmas offering
peeped twinkly, mischievous eyes
and an adorable little face as round
S las the blue cap which set at a jaun-
ty angle on his brown bangs.
Prompted by his mother, he came
toward me with the appraising un-
certainty of a child with strangers
and poked the big bouquet at me.
Instantly I was on my knees with
arms out. Apparently this was
ran straight into them and planted
a wet kiss on my cheek.
He Steals a Writer’s Heart
When I tell you that, as quickly
as this, my heart was completely
stolen by the sensation of the mo-
tion picture season, 4-year-old David
§i/Lee, you will understand why “Son- |
& iny Boy” is captivating even the most
blase audiences wherever “The Sing-
ing Fool” is being shown.
his parents any amount for
privilege of adopting him.
“He’s just the baby I have always
wanted,” the childless comedian
pleaded. “T’ll give him every ad-
vantage money can buy, send him to
Harvard, do anything!”
But Hollywood’s youngest player |;
He loves his “Unele | :
Al” dearly, and now that Unele Al |
is not for sale.
is out of town, David wonders
and wonders why he stays away so
long. But this child worships his
muvver and daddy and Buddy, and
without them he wouldn’t be Davey
at all. For the season’s sensation is
a mere baby who wouldn’t give one
of his toys for his three-figure week-
ly salary, his wonderful five-year
coutract and his heavy fan mail.
A Healthy, Normal Lad
A healthy, normal boy baby at
that, who wriggles and twists and
wants something doing every min-
ute. If it hadn’t been for my vanity
compact, which opens and shuts with
considerable snap, our interview
might not have progressed so satis-
factorily!
The youngster galloped all over
the big tufted couch in the private
office, where we had our talk, engi-
neered by his nice young mother,
Mrs. Frank D. Lee, who is as dif-
ferent from the average stage moth-
er as Davey himself is different from
the carefully coached and _ eurled
younger gentry of Hollywood.
She impressed me at once as being
a woman of sound common sense
with also a sense of values. One of
the first things she told me was that
she proposes keeping David un-
spoiled and unaffected, that she
never has taken him out in public
since he became famous except. once
to visit Santa Claus in a Hollywood
store. It is true that a elause in
David’s contract prohibits “personal
appearances,” but even if there were
no clause, Mrs. Lee would see to it
that the child is kept in sublime ig-
norance of his importance.
As a result David has none of the
stock mannerisms of the peculiar
species, dragged around by their
ambitious, greedy mothers, and
dreaded by Hollywood casting diree-
tors. David’s naturalness, his teas-
ing banter, baby lisp and language
all his own are absolutely irresist-
ible. When he talks his little mouth
twists just as it did in the picture
where David speaks the first lines
ever spoken by a child in the sound
pictures.
You remember the nursery scene
where, lying in Jolson’s lap, he begs:
poise rivals Menjou’s with a dash of |“Please, Daddy, theeng that Thonny
Barrymore.
—Bklyn Standard Union.
Boy thong for me?” Well, that’s just
And why |
Al Jolson, despite his admission that |
:|Davey almost stole the show, would
iilike to have him for keeps, offering
the |
words. For yes he says “Less.” His
io is “I think so or not!”
His Lisp is Natural
In repose the child has a certain
quality of wistfulness about him
chat sets him apart from the average
youngster his age, and sereens so
doignantly. But his mother says in
veal life he is a regular fellow, as
well as quite a handful, that he
romps and plays and marches to the
radio all day long.
On the morning of our interview
David was awfully dressed up and
it was quite evident that he wasn’t
used to it. He had on a diminutive
pair of brown velvet breeches pre-
cisely the color of his brown bob,
worn with bangs like Jackie Coogan
used to wear. Big pearl buttons but-
toned his pants to a pongee silk
blouse which had a dainty frilling
around the collar and euffs and up
ithe front. The collar irked Davey’s
fat little throat and he vociferously
protested until Muvver loosened it.
| Davey’s socks had bright striped
ltops, his slippers were patent leather
jand, mind you, he had a chinchilla
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collar on his dark blue broadcloth
reefer, a band of the fur around his
cap. But Mrs. Lee informed me that
this latter elegance was the gift of
“Uncle Al,” who insisted upon buy-
ing David a coat and eap like the
kids were wearing in New York.
They didn’t have exactly the kind of
cap Jolson wanted, so he drew a pie-
ture of it and had the cap made.
Coasts Along the Couch
Davey didn’t lose a minute shed-
the way Davey really pronounces his ding his outer garments and climb-
| got
ing up on the couch for a roller-
coaster ride down. To divert him,
his mother untied the large packet
of fan letters she had collected that
morning at the studio and asked Da-
vid to “read” one for me. Selecting
one with a Boston postmark, which
came from a little girl named Louise,
living at 133 Endicott Street, Mrs.
Lee said: “Read it to Miss Peak,
Davey, like you read that fan letter
to Daddy last night.”
David took the letter, and with a
wicked little twinkle at me, read:
“Dear Davey Lee, I saw you in ‘The
Thinging Fool.’ You were not so
good, Goodby.”
“Now, Davey, stop playing.
isn’t what you said at all!”
“What, Muvver, did I say?”
“Didn’t you say I saw you in ‘The
Singing Fool’ and I laughed so hard
I kicked the show down?”
“Less,” grinned Davey, becoming
suddenly shy and retiring behind the
couch...
“All right, try again.
one,:. Davey.”
“Will you help me, Muvver?”
“Goodness me, you can read it, a
big boy like you. Now go ahead!”
He Reads the Letter
David hemmed and hawed. “I’ve
nawful cold,’ he said. ‘Dear
Davey Lee’—you help me Muvver.
?
PALS
Read this
“Why, I know what’s-the matter,
Davey. You’ve got the letter upside
down. Of course you can’t read it.
Try this now.”
Davey repeated his same formula,
declaring his fan said he was “no
good ’tall,” all the time laughing
gleefully at the realization that he|
was teasing us.
The second time I _ protested,
“Now, David, you’re just trying to
fool me. ll bet that little girl said
you were wonderful in ‘The Singing
Fool’ and she cried her eyes out.”
“T think so or not,” said David,
solemnly shaking his head. Where-
upon I took the letter and read it
to him. Sure enough the letter did
say David Lee was marvelous and
could the writer have his autograph-
ed picture right away? Another
sent several snapshots she had taken
of a picture of David in a theatre
lobby which she wanted him to sign
with his very own name, and several
asked David to make another picture
with Mr. Jolson.
Quite a number of the letter writ-
ers inquired anxiously whether Da-
vid really died in the picture. Be-
lieve it or not, telegrams have
poured in by the hundred - from
everywhere, asking Warner Brothers
Studio if the rumor were true that
little David Lee was dead. Mrs.
Lee has even had messages of sym-
pathy. For two weeks David, like
Mark Twain, has been denying his
demise!
“T don’t know where the rumor
started” Mrs. Lee said “maybe from
the fact that Davey had the flu.”
I don’t think so. I think it was
lue to David’s art—a higher art
‘han you realize because:all the time
he lay “dying” under the sheet in
‘hat hospital scene in “The Singing
Fool,” David’s nosé was itching so
vadly it was all he could do to keep
from doing the logical thing. But
Unele Al had told him not so much
as to wiggle a toe while the camera
was shooting, and David suffered
and obeyed.
“The minute the sheet was low- | }
ered,” laughed Mrs. Lee, “Davey
called Unele Al to come and seratch ‘
his nose!” |
By this time David, having lost in-
terest in his fan mail, had discovered |
my double compact which fascinated |
him because it had “wed ink” on
one side and “powver” on the other.
Between opening and shutting it he
powdered his neck and my chin.
“Wite my name,” he said—and
then it was “Wite Uncle Al’s name
now.” Meanwhile, Mrs. Lee man-
aged to tell me David’s story—the
story of his amazing fling into fame,
which began with the meeting with
the jazz singer on the Warner lot.
First, however, Mrs. Lee told me
about her son Frank, David’s 16-
year-old brother, to whom,y’¥g owes
his rood luck. Frank, you “will re-
call, gained recognition five years
ago as the cripple child in “The
Miracle Man.”
Frankie a Boy to Them
“Since that time,” said Mrs. Lee,
casting direetors continue seeing
Frankie as that child. They don’t
seem to realize that he is ag tall as
IT am and old enough to play juvenile
parts. If he had been a little more
mature Fox would have given him
the role Nick Stuart had in “The
River Pirate’ to play opposite Lois.
Moran. Instead of being disappoint-
ed, Frankie came home thrilled, be-
cause the casting office told him:
‘Never mind, Frank, you have missed
out on this, but when you are 18
“
just as big parts will come up.’
“Frankie hasn’t visited the studios
much since he was 11, but has been
studying hard at school.. So we were
a little surprised when a-ecall eame
one day from Central Casting for
Frank to call at Warner’s for a test.
We didn’t know what the part was,
or anything about what picture they
were casting for.
“So I took an armful of Frankie’s.
stills and we went to the studio.
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ABOUT OUR KIDDIES
(Programs and Papers)
we | It Can Be Done
Teacher—“You can’t add things
that are not alike. You can’t add
a cow and a sheep and have two
cows or two sheep.”
Bright Boy—“Yes, but you add a
quart of milk and a quart of water
and: you have two quarts of milk.”
—Texas Steer.
He Knew What He Wanted
Teacher—“Who can give me a
sentence using the word ‘Avaunt’?”
Abie—“Avaunt vot avaunt ven
avaunt it.” —Tit-Bits.
Easy to Identify
Mother—“My poor darling, show
me the wicked boy who hit you.”
Son—‘That’s the one over there,
with a black eye and a tooth out
in front.” —tTIrish Humor.
Too Big
Father—“How would you like a
cow for a wedding present?”
Daughter—“Oh, a cow would give
more milk than we would need for
two. A calf would be just right.”
Punch.
In Tennessee
Teacher was giving a lesson on
Creation when suddenly Tommy in-
terrupted:
“My father says we are descended
from apes, sir.”
“Well,” replied the teacher,
sharply, “your private family mat-
ters have no interest for the class.”
—Implement & Hardware Trade
Journal.
All Ready
A student failed in an examina-
tion in all the five subjects he took.
He telegraphed to his brother:
“Failed in all five. Prepare Papa.”
The brother telegraphed back:
“Papa prepared. Prepare yourself.”
—The Humorist.
At the Museum
Small Boy, viewing | skeleton:
“That was before skin was invented,
wasn’t it, papa?’ —Caras y Caretas.
Hard to Find
Little Girl—‘Mother may I go
out and play with the other children
now ?”
“You may play with the other
little girls, but not with the boys;
for they are too rough.”
“But, Mother, if I find a nice
smooth little boy, can’t I play with |
him?” —Bladet |
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Prosperous
Caller—“Let me see, I know most
of your folks, but I have never met
your brother George. Which side of
the house does he look like?
The Small Boy of the family—
“The one with the bay window.”
Hardware Age.
The Moralist
Kid—How old is that lamp, Ma?
Ma—Oh, about three years, why?
Kid—Turn it down. It’s too
young to smoke.
—Philadelphia Watchman.
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GRANDMA PUTS HIM TO BED—GRAND-DAD HOVERS NEAR
Sonny Boy:
Please don’t ask me to say my prayers no more!”
Grandma: All right darling, no more prayers.
‘Grandpa: Want a glass of water, honey?
Sonny Boy: No Grand-dad but I’d like a chocolate soda.
Grand-dad: Not tonight—tomorrow. you shall have the finest
chocolate ice cream soda in town.
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MOTHERS AT DAVEY’S SHOW |,,
One thing yet there is, that none
Hearing ere its chime be done
Knows not well the sweetest one
Heard of man beneath the sun
Hoped in heaven hereafter;
Soft and strong and loud and light,
Very sound of very light,
Heard from morning’s rosiest height,
When the soul of all delight
Fills a child’s clear laughter.
Swinburne’s stanza perfectly de-
scribes the laughter of Davey Lee,
the four year old wonder child of
the screen, who stars in “Sonny
Boy,” the Warner Bros. Vitaphone
production. It is full of light and
shadow, with the spontaneity of
something fresh and unspoiled.
Davey—or as many are now eall-
ing him, Sonny Boy,—amazed New
York’s hardened eritics, and one ean
say without exaggeration that never
has a child, on stage or screen, won
such praise. The New York World,
for instance, declared that “when
Davey has the floor he is positively
great. All about you can hear
AUNT KIDNAPS
DAVEY LEE IN
“SONNY BOY”
“Sonny Boy,’ Warner Brothers
latest Vitaphone Talking Picture,
and Davey Lee’s first starring ve-
hicle, whisks “Sonny Boy’s” pretty
Aunt Winnie—played very prettily
indeed by Miss Betty Bronson—
from the quiet of a country village
‘into the big town and a kidnapping
| escapade.
Unable to return home with the
irrepressible Kiddie, she seeks
refuge in the apartment of a prom-
inent divoree lawyer whom _ she
thinks has left town. She gains
entrance by posing as his wife and
is accepted as such by his parents
who arrive from the Philippines.
The lawyer however, is called
| back, and returning to his apart-
ment proceeds to teach the unknown
but captivating “wife” a very
thrilling lesson. In all of which
“Sonny Boy” himself plays a funny
little part. -The picture was di-
rected by Archie Mayo.
Davey Lee in “Sonny Boy” at the
Theatre now.
people catch their voices and mur-
mur: ‘God love him!’ and similar
expressions. And when, near the
end of the picture, he sings ‘Sonny
Boy,’ he fairly brings the house
down.”
The Mid-Week Pictorial, was
even more emphatic. “The era of
Jackie Coogan as infant monarch of
the movies has passed,” was how
that periodical summed it up. “That
of Davey Lee seems to have arrived.
Davey has only to come before the
camera for a ripple of laughter and
genuine affection to run through
the house. His baby talk, which
is perfectly natural, is a joy. In
the closeups you can see him
struggling with some of the words,
simple as they are except in one
case, where, when he has _ been
promised an ice cream soda_ to-
morrow if he goes to sleep like a
good boy tonight, he looks up and |}
asks: ‘Can I depend upon that?
He is considered one of those
rare creations “a screen child who
can talk baby talk and otherwise
act ‘cute’ without being intolerable.”
Overnight, Davey Lee found him-
self famous by his appealing work
in Al Jolson’s “The Singing Fool.”
Never before in the history of the
sereen had a child acted with such
utter simplicity and naturalness.
His acting was nothing short of a
revelation. It was unforced, it was
just what one expected of a child
in the intimacy of his home.
Generally children become self-con-
scious in a crowd, when they are
being shown off to admiring visitors.
The one exception is Davey Lee.
Many a veteran of stage and screen,
indeed, could take a lesson from
him in the art of appearing uncon-
cerned by the camera, director, and
the thousand and one pieces of the
machinery attaching to the making
of motion pictures.
THE GOLDBOIGS SEE DAFEY LEE
(Apologies to Milt Gross)
By SANFORD ABRAHAMS
.. 1st floor: Yoo, hoo, oh Mrs. Rosen-
stein, Mrs. Rosenstein!
3rd floor: Hello Mrs. Goldboig, so
wot wuss?
1st floor
Last night
3rd floor
: You should hoid it yat.
we went by de pitskers.
: From Al Jolson?
DO YOU KNOW THE
OTHER NAMES OF
THESE DAVIDS?
1. What David is buried in West-
minster Abbey while his heart
is buried in Africa?
2. What David killed a giant with
a sling shot?
3. What David was an American
frontiersman and Congressman;
defended the Alamo and was
ordered shot by Santa Anna?
What David is a Charles
Dickens hero?
5). What David is said to eare for
drowned sailors in his locker?
What David is a prominent
Robert Louis Stevenson char-
acter?
Who wrote
Davey?”
What David was a _ Seottish
historian and philosopher?
What David is the American
actor who appeared in “The
Musie Master?”
What was the David played on
screen by Richard Barthelmess?
6.
the “Epistle to
8.
a.
ll. What crown prince is nick-
named “Davie Windsor?”
12. What David is a Talking Pic-
ture star at the age of four?
13. What is his first starring pic-
ture?
14. Who produced the picture?
15. Where is it playing? -:
Offer free admissions for the first
ten correct sets of answers to the
above questions.
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Crockett.
David Livingstone.
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King
4,
David Copperfield. 5. Davey Jones.
6.- David Balfour.’ 7, Robert
Burns. 8. David Hume. 9. David
Warfield. 10. “Tolable David.”
ll. Prince of Wales. 12. Davey
Lee. 13. “Sonny Boy” 14. War-
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GRANDPARENTS HAVE NEVER BEEN KNOWN TO SPOIL ’EM
Ist floor: Ay, yi, yi, yi, no. From
de talkink pitskers we hoid Dafey
Lee in “Sonny Boy.” Is dis a
pitsker—it’s positivel a scrim. Mine
husband Mawruss, by his second
cousin on de mothers side is a cricit!
3rd floor: A cricit? En henemal he
is?
Ist floor: No a newspaper cricit
wot goes free to de shows. So
Mawruss knows all hubout dese. He
sass “Dafey Lee is an hector from
de finest quality, bot!!” sass Maw-
russ, “Bot! “Mine angel Abie is of
cuss smotter.”
Voice from 2nd floor: “I’ll give
you, loafer! You’ll tek pennies from
de babies benk and buy ‘Hotists
and Muddles’ hah? (smack) Youw’ll
like poses in de lewd, hah? (smack)
An hotist you'll became, Hah?
(smack). A weenus I’ll give you
(smack).”
Ist floor: So, Mrs. Rosenstein, as
I wuss saying, mine Habie is so
switt you could itt him wit mustard!
You know what he did last night?
IT esked heem “How moch you loff
de poppa?” He sass “He should
break it a lake!” Poddon me Mrs.
Rosenstein. Looey. Deedn’t I
tell you to leave off from de sex-
phoney musick? “You Can’t Give
Me Anything, Bot Loff” hah? You
give me maybe de lest months budd
bill. Mrs. Rosenstein dot boy is
driffing me kerrrezy.
3rd floor: So you tink maybe
Habie will make it pitskers?
Ist floor: Well of cuss, ’ll must
consider, How can I trost mine
hosband witt de vempeeres of Loose
Angels. I hoit only yesterday dot
Gloria Pickford itts men halife!
3rd_ floor:
Ist floor:
Iss dess possible?
End Maruss has sax
appil from de bast quality. Hah,
there goes de bell, it must be mine
hosbend. Hes tukking to de baby.
Mawruss: Whiskers you'll make,
hah? (smeck) Tear opp de mettruss,
hah, (smeck) an hector you'll be-
came (smeck) I’ll geeve you Dafey
Lee (smeck).
1st floor: Not in de hedd, Maw-
russ! You’ll poddon me again Mrs.
Rosenstein, T’ll spikk witt mine
Habie. Soech a dollink.
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Davey went along. I couldn’t leave
him behind because he never lets me
get out of his sight a second. That
story wasn’t true about Davey’s wan-
dering away, and running into Mr.
Jolson out on the lot. You couldn’t
coax him to leave my side.
“The casting director paid no at-
tention to Frankie at all when he
saw how big he was. He just looked
at Davey, and asked me if he had
been working. I told him he hadn’t
had any experience but could do
anything they wanted him to do.
“He took Davey into Mr. Warner’s
office, where he was talking to Mr.
Jolson and Billy Rose, who wrote
the ‘Sonny Boy’ song. I trailed
along.
“Mr. Jolson just gave one look at
David and held out his arms. They
began to talk ears and different
things that would interest David,
and instantly were laughing and
having a great time. From the start,
Mr. Jolson seemed to understand
Davey, to know just what I knew,
that he could do anything.
““Test this boy,’ he said to the
easting man.
“We came three mornings for
three different tests—first with Mr.
Jolson, then with Davey’s play
mother, Josephine Dunn, and finally
with Davey alone on the set with his
toys. There wasn’t a time when he
didn’t know what he was wanted to
do. Davey’s scenes with Mr. Jolson
occupied two weeks. In that time
he didn’t hold them up 10 minutes;
there wasn’t a retake.
“The moment the director said
‘Camera!’ and called Davey on the
set he responded instantly. He is
____s0_ shy and affectionate at home, no
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one but Mr. Jolson could have han-
dled him as he did. He played with
him constantly, went over Davey’s
lines with him, and when Mr. War-
ner or anyone would come on the
set, Mr. Jolson would say: ‘Come on,
Davey, let’s go over our lines to-
gether.’
“Tlonestly, it seemed as though
Mr. Jolson had had a dozen chil-
dren,” she went on. “He did some-
thing when he was playing with
Davey that only his daddy and I do—
he would bite him on the toes. If
the child had belonged to him he
couldn’t have loved him much more.
He told me he saw in David the
baby he had always wanted, and
went on to say what he would do for
him if we would let him adopt him.
Sorry for Famous Comedian
Mrs. Lee sighed as though she felt
sorry for the millionaire comedian
who had everything but a son like
DA
hers, whom money couldn’t buy.
“[ feel so uplifted from having
come in contact with Mr. Jolson,”
she went on, “It was the greatest
thing that has ever come into my
life. Positively he’s the most hu-
man soul I know.’ Davey adores
him.”
At this juncture there ran through
my mind Jolson’s own story—so
strangely different from David’s, the
answer to Jolson’s talent, tempera-
ment and tenderness, the story of
the ragged tenement child, Asa
Yoelson, playing in the Washington
streets and singing for pennies in
the capital’s once notorious cafe
’way down on Pennsylvania Avenue
known as “The Bucket of Blood.”
How dramatic is it that that
ragged boy, son of Russian immi-
grants, who did not know one note
from another when he started sing-
ing for his supper in Washington,
should grow up to be more eele-
brated than the celebrities he enter-
tained, and that just when he had
discovered happiness was neither in
fame nor fortune he should run
across a little boy his heart hungered
for!
Stranger and sadder still that that
little boy could only bring him fur-
ther gold and glory. Already Jol-
son’s “Sonny Boy” song has netted
him a royalty of $75,000 on records
alone. Davey Lee knows every word
of the song himself, and his mother
says, is too dear for words when he
sings it standing beside the piano
while Frankie plays the accompani-
ment.
Frankie Proud of Davey
“Frankie is awfully proud of his
brother,” explained Mrs. Lee, “and
was just thrilled when he found out
what a nice, big part he was to have
as Sonny Boy. He was so anxious
for him to do well, and every night
when we would get home from the
studio Frankie would be standing
waiting in the door.
“He would have a little present
wrapped up for Davey, and when I
would tell him brother Davey did
well today he would kiss him and
carry him off to open his present.”
“Muvver, tell her about that fire
engine,” David interrupted. The
conversation was now taking a turn
that interested him.
So Mrs. Lee told me all about the
little “engine that went” that
Frankie had as a big reward for his
buddy one night for his big scene
that day in “The Singing Fool.” But
of course, she said, Davey never
realized he was doing anything but
playing on the set. It was all just
a game to him, and was dismissed
from his mind the moment he got
home.
“They asked me several times at
the studio if Davey was nervous and
restless at night. But he wasn’t. 1
gave him his bath and a good olive
oil rub, and he slept soundly.
“T am always careful of his diet,
and especially so when he is work-
ing. He has his milk promptly at
10.30 and his orange juice in the
afternoon on the set just as he does
at home.
A Temperamental Youngster
“I tell you, Miss Peak, Davey has
jkept me occupied every minute since
he was born. He has a strange little
temperament and is very self-asser-
tive. He isn’t easy to handle, and
certainly you can’t manage him like
most children. One night I came
home from the studio awfully tired,
so I asked Mr. Lee if he wouldn’t
put Davey’s nightie on and get him
ready for bed.
“Pretty soon I heard him scream-
ing in the bathroom, absolutely re-
fusing to go to bed.’ F told his
daddy to get a stick and go out and
shake the bushes around the house,
and I would take care of Davey.
“Then I went in and quietly told
Davey that he was waking up all the
birds. Couldn’t he hear them seramb-
lin’? around in the trees outside?
Davey stopped crying instantly and|lots of
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Davey’s Big Brother
Little Davey Lee, star of Warner
Brothers Vitaphone production of
“Sonny Boy,” now at the
Theatre, is the brother of Frankie
Lee, a very popular screen child of
several years ago. Frankie, aged
sixteen, is devoting his time to high
school at present, but plans to return
to the screen when he finishes~ his
education. Davey’s hasn’t officially
begun yet. He is only four years
old and spends all his spare time
playing.
Davey Lee Himself
Four-year-old Davey Lee, starred
in Warner Brothers Vitaphone of
“Sonny Boy,” now at the
Theatre, is even cuter off the screen
than on. Beside the screen shadow
and voice which the publie know,
he has a velvety pink and white
complexion which needs no make-
up, lustrous brown hair, perfect
teeth and big blue eyes shaded by
long lashes.
Davey’s Memory
Director Archie Mayo declares
four-year-old Davey Lee to be one
of the best troupers he has ever
worked with. During the vitaphon-
ing of Warner Brothers production
of “Sonny Boy,” Davey’s first star-
ring picture, he had not the slightest
difficulty in remembering the action
which Mayo told him to go through
or in his lines, although some of the
sequences are quite long.
Davey loves to work in the talk-
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SHIPMATES
My Grandpa used t
o sail in ships
Around the world and back again.
He has tattooes on
both his arms.
I wish I’d known my grand pa then.
I told him so, and grandpa said:
‘I wish so, too, but anyhow,
Even tf we did lose
time—
Davey, me lad—we're shipmates now!
“And always going
to be!” I said.
I wonder what he meant, ’cause then,
He told about a ship that sailed,
And never did come back again!
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whispered his prayers for fear he |
would disturb the birdies.”
Davey looked terribly pleased
about this, and had to be told a lot
more about bird’s nests and things
before we could go on. Finally I
}asked him what he thought of him-
self when he saw “My” on the sereen
|for the first time.
“Booful, little bit,” he said. Mrs.
Lee smiled. “When Uncle Al came
out first to sing, Davey got the most
foolish look on his face. He knew
it wasn’t he and he couldn’t under-
stand how he could be there singing.
But when he saw himself, he looked
so sober and puzzled it was funny!”
The Picture Is Forgotten
Davey grinned, and before he knew
it we had forgotten all about the
fame the picture had brought him
and were talking about what Santa
Claus was going to bring David Lee.
It was just a few days before Christ-
mas. Where would the thoughts of
a 3-year-old-going-on-4 be at a time
like that?
On “electric trains, house of books,
soljur games, gun like that
play gun in Unele Al’s picture, little
airplane with motor you can pedal
with your feet, and a otterbile.”
| Unele Al and Warner Brothers are
David Lee’s Santa Claus. Isn’t he
'Al’s special discovery, and hasn’t the
big white-front, radio towered studio
‘signed him for featured roles for the
/next five years? Davey has already
‘Played with Rin-Tin-Tin and with
|Edward Everett Horton, Gertrude
i/Olmstead and Betty Bronson in
‘his own special “Sonny Boy”
land he has a fascinating career
ahead of him. But don’t imagine
ihe believes Santa Claus wears any-
thing but long white whiskers, high
boots and a red jacket!
And don’t get the idea that Holly-
| wood’s youngest player is supporting
(a large family at the tender age of
3. His father, who was a former
newspaper man, has a perfectly fine
job as title writer for Paramount
Studios. His buddy has a sereen fu-
ture of his own when he gets old
enough, and his mother—well, you
know Mrs. Lee! Once she wanted
to be an actress, but now she has a
bigger career managing David’s.
his mother can use with him {§ that
she will make him retire from the
show business. The lad is very ob-
servant. He soon knew the names
of everything about the set, and sev-
eral days after he has started on a
picture he knew all the workers, as
well as actors, by name.
Edward Everett Horton, Betty
Bronson, Gertrude Olmstead, John
T. Murray, Edmund Breese, Lucy
Beaumont, Tommy Dugan and Jed
Prouty are among those in Davey’s
support in “Sonny Boy.”
Davey’s “Weepie”
When Archie Mayo came to direct
little Davey Lee in Warner Broth-
ers Vitaphone talking picture, “Son-
ny Boy,” he confided to Edward
Everett Horton that the job would
probably be a difficult one.
“You know Davey is only four!”
he said.
Mayo started to explain the first
scene in a very careful and detailed
way in words of one syllable. David
looked slightly puzzled at first, then
a look of boredom suffused his face.
“Pardon me, Mr. Mayo. You
want a weepie, don’t you. Lets twy
it,” and with all the assurance of a
seasoned trouper he went through
the scene.
“Well, Archie, that takes the load
right off your shoulders,’ said Hor-
ton. “Some kid!” answered the
beaming director.
Davey Stars It
Davey Lee, the adorable child who
created such a sensation wit® Al Jol-
son in “The Singing Fool,” was
placed under contract by Warner
Bros. and after appearing with Rin-
Tin-Tin in “Frozen River,” was ele-
vated to stardom, may now be seen
pnd. heard at. dthegepeeen 2. ts
Theatre in his first starring vehicle,
Warner Bros. Vitaphone talking pic-
ture, “Sonny Boy.”
David has just turned his fourth
year. Other members of the all-
star cast are Edward Everett Hor-
ton, Betty Bronson, John T. Murray,
Gertrude Olmstead, Lucy Beaumont,
Tommy Dugan and Jed Prouty. Leon
Zuardo, did the story. C. Graham Ba.
ker the scenario, and Archie L.
Mayo directed.
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“SONNY BOY” ACTOR |POPULAR SCREEN STAR
ONE-DAY MAGNET
FOR HARD LUCK
“Honest to Job!” exclaimed Ed-
ward Everett Horton as he rushed
in late one morning during the
filming of “Sonny Boy,” Warner
Bros. Vitaphone film starring the
million dollar kid, Davey Lee, now
current at the Theatre.
) ‘he spare hard-luck in the
| <<"w1t me in a bunch this morn-
ing,’ he continued to director Archie
Mayo, Betty Bronson, Gertrude Olm-
sted, John TT. Murray and other
members of the cast.
“After the show last night, our
elub. gave a little supper. I got to
bed late. At 6:30 this morning,
before my Chinese had arrived, I
was routed out by the insistent door-
bell. It was the new milkman
wanting to make sure that he had
the right place.
“Came. breakfast time and my
Chinese tripped over the electric
perecolator cord. Diving to the scene
of the tragedy I furiously bailed and
mopped coffee from my $6,000 orien-
tal rug. Galm restored, my collie
came in. While I read the news-
paper and petted him, he slyly drag-
ged a piece of heavily buttered toast
off the table and upside down on
the $6,000 O. R. More diving and
mopping.
“T use the same gloves in the play
and the picture. * remembered that
I had left them in the big fur coat
at the' theatre. I rushed there, got
the gloves and laying them on my
dressing table, carefully returned
the coat to its moth-proof bag and
rushed furiously to the studio. As
I entered the gate the sickening
realization that I had left the gloves
behind flooded over me. Returnng
to the theatre, I ran into my brother,
who wanted my final word on an in-
vestment we had been planning.
“Let’s save the money. It’s going
to be a hard winter,” I shouted as
I ran,—“and here I am.”
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ifunny detective.
jhusband’s attorney is leaving town,
ALSO PLAY PRODUCER
Edward Everett Horton, who
with Betty Bronson, Gertrude Olm-
sted, John T. Murray, Tommy
Dugan, Edmund Breese and Lucy
Beaumont are seen in Warner
Brothers’ first Davey Lee stellar
picture, “Sonny Boy” now showing
at the Theatre is 4 very
busy man.
During the nine months preceding
the completion of “Sonny Boy” he
produced seven successful plays at
the Vine Street Theatre in Holly-
wood and in his spare time played
featured roles in “Miss Informa-
tion,” “The Terror” and “Sonny
Boy,” all Warner productions.
Horton has had such well known
screen leading ladies in his theatre
as Lois Wilson, Ethel Grey Terry,
Maude Fulton, Florence Eldridge,
Flobelle Fairbanks and _ Leatrice
Joy.
“Sonny ~Boy)- is ae licht.. and
clever comedy-drama built around
a marital falling out and efforts to
obtain possession of the child. The
husband gets a court order giving
him the boy, but his wife has her
sister come up from the country
and kidnap the youngster right
under the nose of a dumb, but very
Hearing that the
she picks his apartment as the ideal
place to hide. Meanwhile his folks
arrive and find her masquerading
as his wife. The attorney arrives
later and prepares to enjoy the
situation to its fullest.
A DEFECTIVE DETECTIVE
Tommy Dugan creates the role of
the defective detective in Warner
Bros. first Davey Lee stellar vehicle,
“Sonny Boy,’ directed by Archie
Mayo. An interpreter of comedy
roles on stage and screen for many
years, Dugan is seen as Mulcahy
whose belief in his own dignity and
omniscience is unshakable as well
as his conviction that women can-
not resist him. Betty Bronson
plays upon these qualities to out-
wit him. Other members of the
cast are Edward Everett Horton,
Gertrude Olmsted, John T. Murray,
Edmund Breese and Jed Prouty.
“Sonny Boy” is introducing Davey
Lee as a Vitaphone star at the
Theatre this week.
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NEW CHILD STAR, WARNER BROS’
MILLION DOLLAR KID, A TREMENDOUS
HIT IN HIS VITAPHONE, “SONNY BOY”
Warner Bros. present Davey Lee in ‘‘Sonny Boy.”
Story by Leon
Zuardo. Scenario by C. Graham Baker. Directed by Archie L. Mayo.
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A new child star has been added
to the screen firmament by Warner
Bros. in the person of little Davey
Lee who was roundly applauded at
the Theatre last night by
a thoroughly enthusiastic audience
when he made his first appearance
in “Sonny Boy.” ‘The child
If Swinburne were alive today and had just written this
poem, he might well have dedicated it to Davey Lee, Warner
Bros. new child star whose “Sonny Boy” is conquering all
hearts.
A CHILD’S LAUGHTER
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
All the bells of heaven may ring,
All the birds of heaven may sing,
All the wells on earth may spring,
All the winds on earth may bring
All sweet sounds together;
Sweeter far than all things heard,
Hand of harper, tone of bird,
Sound of woods at sundawn stirred,
Welling water's winsome word,
Wind in warm wan weather.
One thing yet there is, that none
Hearing ere its chime be done
Knows not well the sweetest one
Heard of man beneath the sun,
Hoped in heaven hereafter;
Soft and strong and loud and light,
Very sound of very light
Heard from morning's rosiest height,
When the soul of all delight
Fills a child’s clear laughter.
wonder more than fulfills all the
promise held forth by his perform-
ance with Al Jolson in “The Sing-
ing Fool.” It is safe to predict |
that he will take the place left |
vacant by Jackie Coogan when the
latter began to grow up, and that
young Davey will bring to the
|place a charm and an appeal all)
his own. He is a new film luminary
to be reckoned with.
“Sonny Boy” is an ideal vehicle
for introducing the youngster as a
star and the author of the story, |
Leon Zuardo, and the seenarist, C. |
Graham Baker, deserve credit for.
preparing a script that shows Davey
off to the best advantage. Archie |
L. Mayo is to be congratulated on
the excellence of his direction, par-
ticularly in the comedy sequences
which he has managed admirably.
TWO STARS “MADE”
BY SAME PLAY
Betty Bronson who is seen in
support of Davey Lee, Warner
Brothers’ new child star, in “Sonny
BOY uatetnee .2- ets Theatre, was
skyrocketed into screen fame by
the same play that gave Maude
Adams her greatest hold upon the
public. That play was “Peter
Pan.” Miss Adams’ fame is founded
on that play of Sir James M.
Barrie’s, although she had. already
won a secure and high place on the
American stage through her char-
acterizations in many other plays—
several by Barrie. Other American
actresses have since essayed the role,
but without conspicuous success.
But when Miss Bronson was
chosen by Barrie himself to act
Peter on the screen, the attention
of millions was fastened upon her,
and when she triumphed in the part
her fame was made. She has been
a sereen personality ever since. '
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“Sonny Boy” is a picture well worth
seeing by any one who is looking
for screen entertainment.
Despite the facet that the sup-
porting cast contains a number of
filmdom’s most experienced and best
players, young Davey’s acting does
not suffer by comparison. He is
natural, unaffected and charming at
all times. Betty Bronson and Ed-
/ward Everett Horton take care of
the love interest admirably and are
aided in the development of the
plot by Gertrude Olmsted, John T.
Murray, Tommy Dugan, Lucy Beau-
mont, Edmund Breese and Jed.
Prouty all of whom give admirable
portrayals and add to the gaiety
of the picture.
Mary and Hamilton, Sonny Boy’s
parents, have quarreled, and Hamil-
ton plans to take their boy with
him to Europe. Mary telegraphs to
her sister, Winifred Canfield, to
help ‘her retain her child. Pre-
tending to be the maid, Winifred
sends Sonny Boy out of the house
in a clothes basket which is carried
by the detective employed by Ham-
ilton to keep his wife from spiriting
the child away.
Winifred, at the railway station,
overhears Thorpe, Hamilton’s law-
yer, saying that he is leaving his
apartment vacant for some days.
To escape pursuit, already under
way, Winifred takes Sonny Boy to
Thorpe’s apartment to which she
gets the key by pretending to be
his wife. Thorpe’s parents arrive
unexpectedly and Winifred has to
keep up the pretense of being their
daughter-in-law. Thorpe is called
back by Hamilton and returns to
his apartment. He knows
fred’s story is false but does not
learn her identity until he overhears
her telephoning to Mary.
Mary’s arrival is
soon followed
by that of Hamilton who thinks his |
wife has a rendezvous with Thorpe |
and attacks the attorney. The ap-
pearance of- Winifred and Sonny
Boy soon clears up matters. The
child’s parents are reconciled, and
Thorpe’s parents send for a eclergy-
man to marry their son and the
Wini- |
“SONNY BOY” ADDS
NEW CHILD STAR TO
TALKIE FIRMAMENT
AS THEATRE — Warner
Bros. present Davey Lee in
“Sonny Boy.” Story by Leon
Zuardo. Scenario by C. Graham
Baker. Directed by Archie L.
Mayo. Cast includes Betty Bron-
son, Edward Everett Horton,
Gertrude Olmstead, John T. Mur-
ray, Tommy Dugan, Lucy Beau-
mont, Edmund Breese and Jed
Prouty.
Homage of laughter and_ tears
was paid last night to a new child
wonder star introduced to the screen
by Warner Bros. in their production
of “Sonny Boy.” He is the same
child actor who, as Sonny Boy in
“The Singing Fool,” shared honors
with Al Jolson.
“Sonny Boy,” and the captivating
acting of the youngster prove that
Warner Bros. made no mistake when
they decided to star him. His ehild-
ish charm, poise and lack of pose
bring him close to the hearts of
picture patrons. He is bound to be
a big draw in any theatre for the
human heart melts at once when
such a clever youngster is shown
upon the screen.
The picture shows Davey Lee as
the young son of a couple of whe
have quarreled and parted, each
seeking to obtain custody of their
son. The mother’s sister,
into the case, abducts the child and
flees for refuge to the apartment of
his father’s lawyer ‘by’ pretending to
be his wife. The lawyer returns
unexpectedly and laughable com-
plications galore follow through
which Sonny Boy wanders a per-
fectly natural child, undisturbed by
all the strange actions of his elders.
The quarrel of husband and wife is
patched up, and the lawyer and the
abducting aunt are lawfully mar-
ried under the stern eyes of his
parents to whom the girl had pre-
tended to be their son’s wife.
Betty Bronson plays the role of
the aunt and Edward Everett Hor-
ton that of the father’s lawyer.
Most of the comedy falls to them
and they put it across cleverly,
aided by Tommy Dugan, Gertrude
Olmstead, John T, Murray, Lucy
Beaumont, Edmund Breese and Jed
Prouty. Archie L. Mayo has done
a good job of direction. -You will
miss a good and highly diverting
picture if you fail to see and hear
Davey Lee in “Sonny Boy.”
MILLION DOLLAR KID
CHARMS IN TALKIE
The audience at the ........- ‘
Theatre where Warner Bros. new
child star, Davey Lee was _ seen
last night in his first talking film,
“Sonny Boy,” surrendered unani-
mously and completely to the charm
and poise of the youngster. He held
them captivated. He was so natural
|and unstudied that he did not seem
to be acting at all, but just to be
living through the humorous, path-
etic and thrilling moments of the
picture. Young Davey is a big
“finds?
Sonny Boy, son of quarreling
parents, is stolen by the mother’s
sister to keep his father from run-
ning off to Europe with him. The
aunt takes him to the apartment of
the father’s lawyer, who is to be
gone for some days, when the chase
grows hot. She pretends to be the
lawyer’s wife,and has to keep up the
pretense when his parents arrive
unexpectedly, and later when the
lawyer himself returns. He learns
who the girl is from her telephone
conversation with the child’s mother,
and there is all sorts of a comedy
mixup when she arrives followed by
her husband who thinks she has an
affair with his attorney.
Betty Bronson and Edward Ever-
ett Horton give splendid perform-
jances as the aunt and the lawyer,
/keeping the comedy humming. They: :
are ably assisted by Gertrude Olm-%
sted, John TT. Murray, Tommy
Dugan, Lucey Beaumont, Edmund
Breese and Jed Prouty. A splendid
east in a picture that should be
placed first on the list of those
to see. Davey Lee will amply re-
ward everyone who attends the ....
girl who pretended to be his wife. Theatre this week.
called —
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SCREEN’S YOUNGEST CELEBRITY
SCORES B’WAY VITAPHONE HIT
Davey Lee has made the biggest
kind of hit in Warner Bros. Vita-
phone presentation of “Sonny Boy,”
which has just been shown in New
York. This was expected. Broad-
way looked for a real hit and it got
it. Judging by the reception given
the baby star and his vehicle, there
was good measure of praise for
everybody.
DAVEY LEE, BOY
KING OF THE FILMS
The throne was vacant, ready for
a new king of child screen star,
when little Davey Lee came along
and was acclaimed the lawful occu-
pant of the throne by the millions
of fans who saw him with Al Jol-
son in ‘The Singing Fool.”
It is a movie throne made vacant
by time, and at frequent intervals,
for when the occupant gets into his
’teens he is swept aside in favor of
some other child actor. Jackie
Coogan held sway longer than any
other of the boy kings, but older
picture fans will remember the act-
ing of Ben Alxeander and Bobby
North. For a few years they ex-
erted a charm over picture fans that
only the process of growing up dis-
sipated.
Davey Lee is probably the young-
est child star that filmdom has
known. He is but four years old
and already he has been starred by
—Warner Bros. in the Vitaphone talk-
ing picture, “Sonny Boy,” which
comes to the Theatre on
ee , and the producers are plan,
ning other stellar production for
him,
Edward Everett Horton and Betty
Bronson head the supporting cast,
taking care of the love story of
“Sonny Boy.” Archie L. Mayo
directed the picture from the
scenario by C. Graham Baker.
SS
Someone has said that fate or luck
plays a big role in everything. One
or the other placed the three year
old Davey in the way of Al Jolson
on the Warner studio grounds less
than ten months ago. The meeting
led to the child’s appearance in “The
Singing Fool.’ His suecess in the
picture is a matter of history. To-
day the youngster’s winsome ex-
pression is known throughout the
English speaking world. His photo-
graphs are everywhere, but his in-
difference to it all is colossal.
would cast aside all the adulation
showered on him for a few minutes’
romp with Rin-Tin-Tin.
At the Broadway opening of
“Sonny Boy” some one referred to
Davey as “the millionaire kid.’ The
phrase ran through the distinguished
audience and it promises to identiwy
the youngster for many a day to
come.
The success of the youngest of all
stars emphasizes again the astute-
ness of Warner Bros. in capitalizing
Davey Lee’s charm and precocious-
ness. They also showed good judg-
ment in the selection of “Sonny
Boy” in which to introduce the
youngster in a stellar role.
In this picture Davey is the path-
etic figure of a child whose parents
believe they have come to the part-
ing of matrimonial ways. It sounds
emotional, but all the circumstances
have fareical angles with the result
that the picture is a succession of
hearty laughs. The whole story ends
in glorious fashion with Davey rais-
ing his childish voice in song. The
picture abounds in talking sequences
that are capital.
“Sonny Boy” proves itself a for-
tunate production. It is a triumph
for Davey Lee, for Warner Bros.,
and for Vitaphone, and it furnishes
another reason for the popularity of
talking pictures. Incidentally, “Son-
ny Boy” proves a triumph for Ed-
ward Everett Horton and for the de-
lightful Betty Bronson, much of
whose work is directly with Davey
Lee. The fans will love Davey Lee
|in this picture—and they will do so
wholeheartedly.
PETER RABBIT MEETS HIS WATERLOO
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DAVEY LEE IS NOW A BROADWAY STAR
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DO YOU KNOW WHAT /HEARING OURSELVES
AN AMPWORM IS?
New expressions are constantly
making their way into talkie ver-
nacular just as they are into the
language. Betty Bronson received
something of a shock the first time
she heard one of the latest of these
phrases during the Vitaphoning of
Warner Bros. production, “Sonny
Boy,’ in which she is supporting the
tiny Davey Lee.
The electricity furnishing the
many powerful incandescent lights
of the Vitaphone sets is carried in
cables with stretch over the floor
and through the air in all directions.
“Joe, straighten out this ampworm,”
ishe heard the chief electrician say.
Her startled look revealed Joe doing
nothing more startling than straight-
ening out a cable.
Davey Lee in Warner Brothers’
latest Vitaphone talking picture at
the Theatre now.
AL JOLSON PICKED
NEW FILM STAR
AS OTHERS HEAR US
When she heard her first playback |
on Warner Brothers Vitaphone pro-
duction of “Sonny Boy,” in which
she is supporting Davey Lee, Ger-
trude Olmsted decided she disliked
her voice. “It doesn’t sound at all
as I expected,” she said.
“Tt rarely does, to the speaker,”
said Director Archie Mayo. “For the
first time in your life you are hear-
ing your voice as others hear it.”
By the end of the picture, however,
Miss Olmsted had decided that she
could at least tolerate her voice.
“Its like getting a pair of glasses,’
said John T. Murray. “At first the
world seems a bit blue, but one final-
ly becomes accustomed to them and
the world resumes its rosy hue.”
Davey Lee in “Sonny Boy,” War-
ner Bros. latest Vitaphone talking
picture, is at the
Theatre now.
Davey lee, the four-year-old VALUE OF HIRSUTE
screen star of Warner Bros. new
Vitaphone talking picture, “Sonny |
Theatre |
, was selected by Al Jol- |
Boy,’ coming to the
on
ADORNMENT
Archie L. Mayo, director of War-
son, star of Warner Bros. Vitaphone | ner Brothers Vitaphone production,
picture, “The Jazz Singer” and
“The Singing Fool.”
A child was needed
Singing Fool,” and all kinds of
tests had been made of boys who
had appeared in various pictures.
None of them quite filled the bill.
Neither the director nor the star
were satisfied.
Then Jolson wandered
set for another picture that was
not in use. He found Davey Lee
there and they were soon deep in
a game. When the director at last
found him Jolson held the boy up
in his arms.
“Were’s the boy to act the part
of my son in ‘The Singing Fool’ ”,
he said. “Nobody else will do.” So
Davey got the part, made a _ hit
second only to that of the star and
became a star in his own right a
few months later in “Sonny Boy.”
Edward Everett Horton and Betty
Bronson are chief in the support.
out on a
“Sonny Boy,” starring four-year-old
for “The Davey Lee, says that he has proved
that
of
whiskers and mustaches are
some
Mayo clean-shaven
luxuriant black eyebroys. While
pondering over a scene with his
eyes on some distant point of the
ceiling he unconsciously twirls an
eyebrow, ending his meditation with
a last desperate twist which threat-
ens to unthatch his eye and calls,
“Al-1l-1 right,’ and proceeds to the re-
hearsal of the scene.
“From the benefit derived from
my personal experience,” he says,
“T can imagine the immense advan-
tage of the goatee, the mustachio
and the good old beard!”
Davey Lee in “Sonny Boy,” War-
ner Bros latest Vitaphone talking
pieture at the Theatre
now.
use.
is but has
DAVEY LEE in “SONNY BOY’ — Warner Bros. Latest Vitaphone Talking Picture
FEATURES FOR NEWSPA
PERS
Davey Lee “Panicks”
_ New York Critics
Davey Lee, in “Sonny Boy,” took
the audience by storm. When he
opened his Broadway starring ca-
reer at Warner Bros. Theatre, Little
Davey “panicked” the crowds and
caught the critics for a complete
surrender. a
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Never has a child on Sletarn |
screen won such praise. He won the
hearts of all in attendance, and the
reaction of the audience is reflected
in the following quotations:
“When Davey has the floor he is
positively great. All about you you
can hear people catch their voices
and murmer:
“God love him,’ and similar ex-
pressions.
“And when, near the end of the
picture, he sings ‘Sonny Boy,’ he
fairly brings the house down.’—New
York World.
Davey Lee is the cutest baby the
screen has ever exploited, and that
includes Jackie Coogan.—Bland Jo-
haneson, The Mirror.
Davey Lee, four, hitting “Sonny
Boy” on all six is pleasure not to be
missed. The infant is a knockout.—
Richard Mason, Standard Union.
In his infantile lisping fashion,
Davey Lee is a movie find.—Betty
Colfax, The Graphic.
Davey Lee is without doubt the
greatest screen find of years.—Rose
Pelswick, The Journal.
An infant prodigy that can keep
a packed house hugging itself in
glee—Katharine Zimmermann, The
Telegram.
He’s a lovable little fellow who
;Seenms to take his thespian role seri-
ously. Davey Lee is a lovely sight
throughout.—Ann Silver, Brooklyn
Times.
As sweet and cute as your own,
kid.—Regina Cannon, The American.
Makes you want to put your arms
around him and hug him and eall
him pet names.—Irene Thirer, The
News.
As for Davey Lee he’s a swell
little boy.—Creighton Peet, The
Post.
Davey Lee is indeed a very clever
child and possesses a great deal of
natural charm.—Mordaunt Hall, The
Times.
The lad is just plain “eute.’ His
naturalness is effective and appeal-
ing.—H. David Strauss, The Tele-
graph.
He gives a performance.rWho is
positively amazing.—GeoA] Jolfer-
hard, Evening World. -
A human being and an appealing
child.—S. B., Wall Street Journal.
He is one of those rare creations
—a screen child who can talk baby
talk and otherwise act “cute” with-
out being altogether intolerable.—
Martin Dickstein, Brooklyn Eagle.
. Warner Bros. predictions—have
been fulfilled. Davey Lee is a won-
der child—with resistless appeal—to
old and young.
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The new boy king of the film, Davey Lee, in a comedy
drama that charms.
Hear Davey Lee sing “‘Sonny Boy’’—it’s an experience
you'll never forget.
Davey Lee in “Sonny Boy’”’ — he talks, he sings, he
charms. ;
She kidnapped her sister’s son, so the father couldn’t
run off with him.
Quarreling parents squabble over which shall have
their child—the mother arranges to have him kidnapped.
The bachelor lawyer returned to his apartment—to
find it occupied by a strange woman who said she was his
wife.
She could tell the tallest lies with the straightest face—
the bachelor lawyer almost thought she WAS his wife!
The charm of childhood brought to the screen by a
child who is a natural born actor.
You'll get the laugh of your life at “Sonny Boy’—
with a tear on the heels of the laugh.
The Million Dollar Kid himself talks and sings and
charms in “Sonny Boy.”
Charged with kidnapping, the girl took refuge in the
apartment of the father’s lawyer.
if
The screen’s youngest star conquers all hearts in his
first starring picture.
The greatest child actor the screen has ever known in a
comedy-drama that evokes laughter and tears.
SONNY BOY’S
TALKING
TRAILER
“SONNY BOY’S” TRAILER — BY “SONNY BOY”
HIMSELF — IS THE MOST APPEALING — AND
SPONTANEOUSLY—WONDERFUL TRAILER—
EVER MADE.
LITTLE DAVEY LEE IS SIMPLY ADORABLE —
HE HAS IT ALL TO HIMSELF — FOR ABOUT
FOUR MINUTES — AND WHAT HE DOES — IN
THE WAY OF ANNOUNCING — HIS OWN COM-
ING — WILL BE VOTED THE WONDER OF THE
PICTURE BUSINESS.
“SONNY BOY” TELLS HIS OWN STORY—IN HIS
OWN HEART-TUGGING WAY — TAKES HIS
TIME — (TALKS AND SINGS — ACTS AS
NATURAL AS A KID — IN HIS OWN HOME —
AND WILL OPEN. THE—“OH” AND “AH” DE-
PARTMENT — OF EVERY LAST SOUL — THAT
COMES WITHIN SIGHT AND SOUND — OF THIS
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HEAR DAVEY LEE SING “SONNY BOY”!!!
Davey Lee Sings
“Sonny Boy” as
only Davey Can!
Hear His Imitation of Al Jolson’s Singing.
Showmen booking “Sonny Boy” should avail
themselves of the publicity material the publishers
of the song put at their disposal.
They will gladly furnish gratis—song orchestra-
tions—dance orchestrations—streamers—title pages
of “Sonny Boy” — professional copies and other
accessories.
On booking “Sonny Boy” — Davey Lee’s first
starring vehicle in which he sings “Sonny Boy’ —
it is suggested that you at once get in touch with lead-
ing music dealers of your city, notifying them when
the picture is coming and advising them to supply
themselves with song copies, records and all other
display materials—since the song Al Jolson made
famous in “The Singing Fool”’ is revived in “Sonny
Boy” by Davey Lee’s singing it.
The publishers have representatives in many cities,
but should your city not be among them, write for
particulars to Mr. Sam Lerner, Manager Publicity
Department, De Sylva, Brown and Henderson, Inc.,
745 Seventh Avenue, New York City, N. Y.
For information regarding the purchase of “Sonny
Boy” songs, for sale in lobby of theatre, write direct
to D. M. Winkler, Sales Manager, De Sylva, Brown
and Henderson, Inc., 745 Seventh Avenue, New
York City, N. Y.
“Sonny Boy” Recorded by Victor, Colum-
bia, Brunswick and Other Companies
“Sonny Boy” is recorded by Victor, Brunswick,
Columbia, and all other recording and music roll com-
panies, and your local music dealer may have the song
amplified to catch the attention of passersby, or have
slides thrown on walls of building while the song is sung.
There will be a big call for records of the song ‘Sonny
before, during and after the run of ‘Sonny Boy,”
Pavey Lee’s first starring vehicle, “Sonny Boy.”
Make Use of the Unique Imitation of Jolson
Given by Davey Lee in “Sonny Boy”
Still shown in upper right hand corner of this page may
be had from Miss Ruth Weisberg of Warner Bros., 321
West 44th St., New York. (10c each).
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You ain’t heard nothing yet, if—you
have’nt heard Davey Lee Sing “Sonny
Boy” like Uncle Al sings it!
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‘“‘Tlime upon my knee — Thunny boy!!!”
“SONNY BOY” SLIDES
De Sylva, Brown and Henderson, Inc., 745 Seventh
Avenue, New York City, N. Y., have a complete set
of beautiful ““Sonny Boy”’ slides which can be secured
by arrangement.
It is especially suggested that the “Sonny Boy”
slides be run for a week before the coming of
“Sonny Boy.” These are the same slides used in ‘“The
Singing Fool’’—now of added and unique value since
Davey Lee Sings “Sonny Boy” in his own starring pic-
ture ‘Sonny Boy.”
‘Sonny Boy”’ — the perfect motion picture song —
was written by Al Jolson himself in collaboration with
B. G. De Sylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson.
‘ es have heard Al Jolson sing it. Hear Davey
ee!
BOY WITH TRICK BAG
Send a small boy on the street
with a large trick bag which falls
‘open every now and then, showing
herald, picture of star, theatre and
date. The small boy carrying a
big suit case will attract attention.
IMITATION BUS
Build an imitation bus on a motor
‘truck. At the windows place cut-
‘outs of characters in the picture
from the posters. Banner proclaims
“the passengers are en route to the
" Theatre where “Sonny
Boy” is showing.
The same ballyhoo worked with
a street car, may be better in your
town. A man playing the ac-
cordion, the saxophone or other
‘musical instrument inside the bus
‘or street car will be sure to get the
‘attention. If you prefer, use a
phonograph playing the “Sonny
‘Boy” record.
: IMITATION TELEGRAMS
Have boy dressed in messenger
‘uniform distribute imitation tele-
‘grams from Davey Lee to children
in families inviting them to see itm
in his first starring picture at the
: Theatre. He’s only a
‘child and enjoyed making the pic-
ture and is sure other children will
‘enjoy seeing it.
-PHONOGRAPH IN LOBBY
The best lobby bally you can get
and the most inexpensive will be
-to borrow or rent a phonograph and
-keep it playing the “Sonny Boy”
‘record. Place large portrait of
Davey, made up in imitation of Al
Jolson, in blackface, in a- con-
‘spicuous place in the lobby near
the phonograph.
TREASURE CHEST
Get the ehildren interested
through a treasure chest in your
lobby. Get a merchant to contri-
bute the prize—a chest of tools, a
suit of clothes, a big erector set,
bicycle, tricycle, ete. Distribute
keys throughout the city, announc-
ing in ads, on screen and in herald
that two or three keys will unlock
the chest, and that the first child
to bring in the key that unlocks
it will get the first prize; the next
one the second, ete. Advertise the
merchants contributing prizes in
your program or on the screen.
CHILDREN’S ESSAY
CONTEST
_ Tie up with newspaper for a
children’s essay contest, with suit-
able prizes, on “Why I Like Pie-
tures With Children in Them.”
“Why Davey Lee is My Favorite
‘Actor,’ or “Why I Would Like to
Act in Pictures.”
TREASURE HUNT
The picture furnishes an_ excel-
lent chance for a _ treasure hunt.
Get your newspaper to tie up, hid-
ing the clues in individual merchant
‘ads in a double-trueck ad_ spread.
The merchants will contribute the
prizes in return for theatre adver-
tising. The prize might be the
Yorkville Knitting company’s child’s
sun-suit and the treasure hunt
worked in cooperation with the
store offering the prize, with or
without the newspaper.
BIRTHDAY PARTY
Tie-up with newspaper for a
birthday party, the paper offering
a free ticket to “Sonny Boy” to any
ehild under eight or ten or twelve
whose birthday falls in the month
of the picture’s local showing.
NEWSBOYS’ PARADE
A special newsboys’ morning
matinee and a parade is always
good exploitation. “Sonny Boy” is
an appropriate picture for using it.
The newspapers will give you
plenty of space.
DRAWING CONTEST
Get the school children interested.
Offer cash and ticket prizes for the
best drawing of Davey Lee as he
appears in “Sonny Boy”—a _ free-
hand enlargement of the still show-
ing Davey in blackface (in imita-
tion of Al Jolson) singing “Sonny
Boy,” or of the still showing him
with boxing gloves confronting a
toy rabbit, or the front cover of
the herald. This can be worked
through the schools. Make lobby
display of the drawings.
Through your newspaper you ¢an
work a drawing or coloring contest.
In a doubletruck of co-operative
}merchant advertising run a drawing
(of Davey Lee or a scene from the
picture, offering prizes (contributed
by merchants in exchange for pro-
gram or sereen advertising) for the
best enlarged and colored drawings
made from the published drawing.
HOSPITAL SHOWING, etc.
Give a showing of the picture at
a children’s hospital, or a_ special
free morning showing for poor
children (creating good will for
your theatre) or « Big Brother
orphan party.
MUSIC STORES
One of your biggest exploitation
bets is with music stores. Get
window displays and phonograph
ballyhoos on the strength of the
“Sonny Boy” song records,
stills, posters, enlargements
special ecards.
and
SPELLING BEE
Another means of gaining pub-
licity through the school children
is to offer suitable prizes for each
child who spells down his class at
school. Stage a spelling bee among
the winners in the class contests
on the stage of your theatre for
capital prizes.
CHILD PHOTOS
Tie up with a newspaper offering
ticket prizes to every mother of
a child whose portrait is published
in the newspaper. Get child photos
from photographer or have news-
paper send out photographer to
snap kid pietures in the streets.
SINGING CONTEST
Offer prizes—eash, three months’
pass to your theatre, ete—for the
child who makes up most closely to
resemble Davey Lee in his imita-
tion of Al Jolson and whose singing
of the “Sonny Boy” song is ad-
judged the best. This should be
held in your theatre and will at-
tract great interest and big crowds.
SPECIAL CHILDREN’S
HOUR
Advertise a special hour in the
afternoon — after schools have
closed—as children’s hour at the
“Sonny Boy” showings, admitting
children at half price. This is a
good stunt for small towns and
neighborhood theatres.
TEASER ENVELOPE
Send girls in gay and_ striking
uniforms upon the street to distri-
bute sealed envelopes to women
with “What Women Want” printed
on the outside. A card inside
should read something as follows:
“To see the charming boy-king of
the films, Davey Lee, in his first
stellar vehicle, “Sonny Boy” at the
Theatre. They fall for
him harder than they fell for
Valentino.”
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Oct. 1, 1928
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The Home Towners”’
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tional prizes of free admissions to “Sonny Boy’’—to be chosen by lot. All contestants to get
Davey Lee Button and Certificate of Membership to Davey Lee “Sonny Boy” Club.
The campaign was begun by having newspaper stories with detai!s of the contest, and by
placards in lobby asking patrons to read the particulars in the papers.
Local radio stations, department store handling Yorkshire Knitting Co. products, news-
paper and theatre co-operated in announcement over the air explaining the contest, and men-
tioning the certificate and button that would be sent to every one writing to the theatre.
In the contest the kiddies were judged at store handling the goods—judges being a rep-
resentative from the store, from the theatre and from the newspaper. Pictures of the prize
winners were published later.
During the contest, window displays were run—showing the suit with Davey Lee Button,
certificates, stills of Davey Lee and scenes from his first starring picture “Sonny Boy.”
Music stores made displays of “Sonny Boy’’ records and songs, using placards about the
contest and Davey Lee Club, and stills from the picture.
See copy of certificate below—also data about the Davey Lee button—and the Davey
Lee “SONNY BOY” HERALD—which showmen will furnish, for store to mail out ‘to their
mailing list. Copy of SONNY BOY HERALD on Page 14.
See also suggestions for newspaper ad copy and list of some of Yorkshire Knitting ‘
pany’s representative on next page. Showmen wishing the nearest dealer should write to York-
shire Knitting Co., Inc., 377 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
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PUZZLE FOR CHILDREN
Children all like to work at a puzzle that is comparatively easy of solution.
Get a zinc etching of Davey Lee, cut it up into various sized chunks and print
them in a special leaflet for house-to-house distribution. Offer ticket prizes to the
first twenty or thirty children to assemble the sections into a portrait.
ADVERTISING SLOGAN
Offer prizes for the best slogan or descriptive word about “Sonny Boy’’ for
use in your newspaper advertisements. This should be done a week or ten days in
advance through your program or on the screen.
CAPTIVE BALLOON
‘Use a captive balloon above your theatre if you like—it always attracts at-
tention—but get a smaller balloon and send a man through the streets with it on
a ten or fifteen foot string. Paint your advertisements on the sides of the bal-
loon. If you can’t find a balloon large enough (it should be four or five feet in
diameter) have the man carry a flock of toy balloons, name of theatre on one,
title of picture on another, name of star, date of showing etc., on others.
COLORED GLASSES
This old stunt is always effective. Distribute colored glasses of isinglass (they
are cheap) on a card on which is printed. “‘All eyes will soon be fastened upon
Davey Lee in “Sonny Boy” at the Theatre."” Children will wear the
glasses and talk about the picture, which is just what you want.
SLATE CONTEST
Arrange with dealer in school supplies to offer prizes (of slates, school books,
crayons, etc.) for the best drawing by a school child in imitation of the herald
cover which shows the head of Davey Lee drawn upon a slate, with attractive
copy. Advertise the dealer on your sccreen and in your program. It might be
possible to get a school to go in on a contest of this sort.
REDLINE NEWSPAPER
Arrange with your newspaper to redline the first page or part of an edition
of the paper with your ad for ‘‘Sonny Boy.”
boys) to distribute the papers.
Get Boy Scouts (or regular news-
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